
Episode 55: Sex and Gender Part 2
The Science of Everything Podcast
The Role of Occupation in Cognitive Segregation
There's no real evidence for that. And there are good reasons to suppose that such a simple mapping between more connected brain therefore more connected thoughts or something like that. So moving on from those biological differences, I now want to talk about occupational segregation. Women tend to go into some sorts of occupations, disproportionately, and men tend to going into other sorts of occupations disproportionately. Now, part of this difference undoubtedly reflects discrimination and bias of the type we talk about in part one. But there is certainly a lot more to it than that because there are massive differences in the race at which men versus women express interest and apply for and begin training for various different occupations.