The threats come from a place of fear. In fact, a gender-data-gap-driven fear: certain men, who have grown up in a culture saturated by male voices and male faces, fear what they see as women taking away power and public space that is rightfully theirs. This fear will not dissipate until we fill that cultural gender data gap, and, as a consequence, men no longer grow up seeing the public sphere as their rightful domain.
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A zombie stat is a spurious statistic that just won’t die—in part because it feels intuitively right.
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Research published in 2018 by Boston Consulting Group found that although on average female business owners receive less than half the level of investment their male counterparts get, they produce more than twice the revenue.
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This suggested that it was the climate rather than pre-existing sexism that dictaed the adoption of the plough—which in turn drove the adoption of sexist views.
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It was the Danish economist Ester Boserup who first came up with the plough hypothesis: that societies that had historically used the plough be less gender equal than those that hadn’t.
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Women have always worked. They have worked unpaid, underpaid, underappreciated, but they have always worked. But the modern workplace does not work for women.
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But if in Silicon Valley meritocracy is a religion, its God is a white male Harvard dropout.
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Which raises the question: is women’s unpaid work under valued because we don’t see it—or is it invisible because we don’t value it?
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… Hertha Ayrton remarked that errors overall are “notoriously hard to kill […] an error that ascribes to man what was actually the work of a woman has more lives than a cat”.
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… that humans have evolved to be six times more deadly to their own species than the average mammals.
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Until the 1930s we didn’t really measure the economy with any seriousness. But that changed in the wake of the Great Depression. In order to address the economic meltdown, governments needed to know more precisely what was going on, and in 1934 a statistician called Simon Kutznets produced the United State’s first national accounts. This was the birth of GDPR.
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Seeing men as the human default is fundamental to the structure of human society.
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