women simply do not stick with any career as long as men. affirmative action started in 1961. it's now over 60 years later, and women with 40+ years experience in anything are practically nonexistent. women with 20+ years experience are virtually all in low-stress jobs like teaching. doctors and engineers and most other jobs with 20+ years of experience... the labor force is 90%+ men. this is because women just don't stick with it.
this is a HUGE problem in multiple specialized fields where the training pipeline is limited, virtually all inventions and top end research is done by people with 20+ years experience, and yet they're forced to devote 50% of their pipeline to women who aren't going to stick with it.
the doctor shortage in japan is directly caused by this. quotas require 50% of med school acceptances to go to women. but women don't stick around, which means for doctors with 20+ years experience, the pipeline has been cut in half.
even worse is retention rates.
women simply do not stick with any career as long as men. affirmative action started in 1961. it's now over 60 years later, and women with 40+ years experience in anything are practically nonexistent. women with 20+ years experience are virtually all in low-stress jobs like teaching. doctors and engineers and most other jobs with 20+ years of experience... the labor force is 90%+ men. this is because women just don't stick with it.
this is a HUGE problem in multiple specialized fields where the training pipeline is limited, virtually all inventions and top end research is done by people with 20+ years experience, and yet they're forced to devote 50% of their pipeline to women who aren't going to stick with it.
the doctor shortage in japan is directly caused by this. quotas require 50% of med school acceptances to go to women. but women don't stick around, which means for doctors with 20+ years experience, the pipeline has been cut in half.