Re: Where Have All the Boys Gone?

[Wes Davis <wlrdavis@EARTHLINK.NET>]

Stefan Jeglinski writes:

> Can you elaborate? I mean, all off-the-cuff gender comments aside,
> this is technically illegal, is it not? What types of technical jobs
> are -truly- female only? And, did you somehow feel that the legal
> system was also against you, to the extent that you just felt like
> walking away from it and not fighting? I'm not trolling here, just
> trying to understand this better.

    Although virtually everyone has heard of the Supreme Court decision
"Miranda" almost noone is familiar with the Court's "Johnson vs. Santa
Clara (CA) County"(1984).  The latter impacts most of our lives far more
than the
former.  In effect, the court's decision PROTECTS all employers from legal
action brought by males for gender discrimination.

    If an employer is faced with a likely lawsuit as a result of hiring the
male, but is
protected by statute by hiring the female, the result is predictable.  So,
in effect, it
IS legal to discriminate against the male.


> So, faced with the "facts" of this discussion, I openly admit I just
> don't get this at all. If since 1979 or so (as shown by the original
> chart), women have been noticeably outgrowing men in higher
> education, where are they? Or does this information really have
> -nothing- to do with science fields? Or are women indeed in science
> fields, having simply taken all the university science jobs so that
> people like Doug can't get a break under any circumstances, and so
> people like me never see them come to the commercial technology field
> (except maybe as a marketing or sales person)?

    A good place to start is the web page of the US Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
There are many monthly labor magazines that will also answer your questions.
Women are overwhelmingly going into the 'money' occupations, such as
medicine, business and law.  More than fifty percent of all managers today
are female.  The news media won't tell you that.  Do your own research.

    There are MANY occupations that are, de jure, 'women only'.  Think about
it.


    Wes Davis