Recommended!
A few quotes and notes …
“Women … make up almost 60 percent today [of pharmacists]…” p118
And the average income was $110,000/yr (and that was in 2012!)
“‘Get a college degree! If you get a degree we will give you a shitload of money … and yet men are failing to get the message.’ Why are men failing to get the message? … It’s a mystery that Hannah’s mom, Dian, thinks she has figured out. … ‘Lazy,’ she calls them. ‘They don’t like to think too hard.’ ” p126
“Women ear almost 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees … 60 percent of master’s degrees, about half of all law and medical degrees, and about 44 percent of all business degrees. In 2009, for the first time women earned more PhDs than men … ” p149, 150
And that’s not just in the U.S. The author provides similar numbers for Norway, Australia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Central Asia, the Arab States.
“Guys high-five one another when they get a C, while girls beat themselves up over a B-minus. Guys play video games in their dorm rooms while girls crowd the library. Girls get their degrees with no drama, while guys seem always in danger of drifting away.” p157
The description of a woman’s finance (p158)—he sounds like a teenager.
“Boys of every race and background have a much higher incidence of school disciplinary and behavior problems and suspensions, and they spend far fewer hours doing homework. … Teachers consistently rate girls as being less disruptive and putting in more effort than boys in high school.” p163
And this has probably been the case either because they’re just less mature than girls, or because they don’t need to put in the work, because of cronyism and sexism.
“What used to be considered a marker of leadership—the ability to ac quickly, to remain in a state of pumped-up confidence—was recast as a liability. At the same time, what was long viewed as a feminine weakness—hesitating, waiting for outside feedback and confirmation—now looked like a critical life-saving skill. Researchers have even started looking into the relationship between testosterone and excessive risk-taking [duh], trying to discern whether groups of men, in some basic hormonal way, spur one another to make reckless decisions.” p201
Ya think?
“The picture emerging is a mirror image of the traditional gender map: men and markets on the side of the irrational and overemotional, and women on the side of the cool and levelheaded.” p201-2
“In May 2012, when Wall Street was scratching its head about how JPMorgan could have made the disastrous bet that led to a $6 billion loss, The New York Times came up with a novel and very relatable explanation. The bank’s chief investment officer, Ina Drew, had been overseeing the team responsible for the bet. … Using coach-like post-heroic leadership skills, she kept the traders’ huge egos in check. In morning meetings, she would ‘huddle’ with them and get them to outline the risks they would be incurring in trades that day. … But Drew developed Lyme disease in 2010 and missed huge chunks of time at work. The morning meetings turned into ‘shouting matches’ in her absence … Egos raged and ‘everything spiraled’ …” p202-3
