An alternative theory is that men seem to have a strong desire to be in control. With machines, they are always in control. I’ve never been interested in machines because we made them, we know all about them, and we can control every aspect of them. Where is the unknown? Observe the huge sex difference in the number of men who want to ride motorcycles (machines, fully controllable) vs. the number of women who want to ride horses (you have to finesse them and you are never fully in control). When I was a very young kid, I was fascinated by biology, genetics, and behavior. I bred and trained guinea pigs. I won quite a few prizes at state fairs for my lovely colors I produced and the tricks the piggies performed. Taking apart and putting back together a clock? Sorry, not interesting. There was always that aspect of finding out something new about genetics or behavior when you worked with living things that simply does not exist when working with machines, and I think that uncertainty frightens/repulses men.
Look, you clearly don’t like video games. That’s okay. But please understand that your knowledge of video games is simply not accurate. “Most” video games are not misogynistic nor particularly violent. Most video games are like Candy Crush or Angry Birds. (Both might technically be “violent”, but not in the way I think you mean.) You’re speaking from ignorance.
Good post.
I read right brained people are good at creativity.
Even in creative stuff, I think men are more interested in painting, creating music etc. Women are more interested in creative stuff involving clothes, food, home designing. So, women are more interested in things personal to lives of their’s and of people in their circle (clothes, food, homes). Agree?
Yep.
Candy Crush was clearly designed to appeal strictly to people with a Y chromosome.
I have no problem with you not liking video games. Different people are going to have different tastes in entertainment. My Dad was a big fan of opera, I am not a big fan of people singing in languages I don’t understand. (Although I am partial to "rock opera"s.) (And come to think of it, Swedish rap is quite pleasant to listen to even though I don’t understand Swedish.)
But statements like the one I quoted only serve to show that you don’t really know anything about video games. And unfortunately, it makes people think that the reason you don’t like video games is you have only ever seen one kind. They think that if they can just point you at a video game about puzzle solving in a genderless universe, you’ll be happy.
There are games like that. A lot of them.
Are they that way because inherently they are that way? Or would it be because traditionally, the men had more freedom to explore some of them while women were relegated to household-related things? And if they are, wouldn’t that mean then that the creative force is in essence the same, just directed (by culture, perhaps) into different things?
No…
SOME women are more interested in clothes, food, homes.
SOME men are more interested in painting, songwriting. Is Dolly Parton a dude now?
A lot of it is cultural. A ridiculous amount of famous French and Spanish cooks are from the Basque Country, an area where there has never been that stupid idea that “cooking is women’s work”. What’s ridiculous is not that there are good Basque cooks - what’s ridiculous is meeting grown men who can’t fry an egg!
The IT field doesn’t typically involve dealing with customers though. Other team members, speaking with clients maybe, but i my experience, the women I’ve worked with always excel in these roles (dealing with clients) more than the men.
Looking at specific jobs within the industry I’ve worked in:
Women are more represented:
Functional Design
Management Consulting (dealing with clients)
Testing
Management
Men are more represented:
Straight out programming
Technical design (this goes with the programming)
Support roles (resolving software bugs, maintaining code, problem investigation)
In all my years working I’ve never heard sexism coming from men, where a guy would tell me that a woman can’t do the job). Several times from women though!
Lot of it is cultural but some of it can be natural as well.
Women have to bear the pregnancy time of 9 months, give birth and breastfeed the baby. So nature made women physically weaker than men. Men have more testosterone harmone than women. I think it influences interests as well. Women are interested in things which are directly related to their lives than men.
(This - meaning testosterone levels etc, is also why men die before women in all countries as per my theory. Average life expectancy of women is higher, u can check)
If some male bachelors share an apartment, it is likely to be less clean than an apartment shared by women bachelors (I think).
Note that I am talking about interests, not ability meaning if a woman is really interested or passionate abt any field (except physical strength related field), she is equally likely to beat me as a man…