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My long-standing conviction is that men and women are indeed different

Like women being better then men at math? Common wisdom in Iran according to a swedish-iranian I know.

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Where sexual parity is imposed in a given political system, you have a sudden vacuum. Every party or faction suddenly needs to find women to fill eligible positions in their lists. They often actually have to go out and recruit them, lacking enough female activists. This does indeed mean that they tend to be selected from a wider range of backgrounds than the male cadre.

So, often, the women who are elected have not been submitted to the years of internal competition for eligible positions. Their male equivalents are not their running mates, but those who gave up in disgust years ago, sick and tired of the manoeuvring and infighting for the interesting jobs.

According to this theory, you have therefore, among elected women, a much lower percentage of psychopaths than are to be found in the population of elected men.

Interesting, but only holds for the period of imposing gender balance. As soon as it is established as a system women has to fight their way up against other women.

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by A swedish kind of death on Mon Dec 20th, 2010 at 02:32:36 PM EST
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Like women being better then men at math?

Figures from Scandinavia suggest that under conditions of equality there isn't much difference as far as math goes: They do better than men in Iceland, but very slightly worse in Sweden and Norway.

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Mon Dec 20th, 2010 at 04:41:55 PM EST
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