I had not heard of Warren Farrell, but his Top Ten Quotes over at Nature-Nurture-Nietxsche are interesting
4. “We always look at the ‘Fortune 500,’ and we say, men in power, but we don’t look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren’t properly supervised for safety hazards.”
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I have heard that both sexes are distributed around many properties on a bell curve, and these bell curves, for many things, have coincident centers, but the curve for males tends to be flatter and stretch out more to each side, meaning that men tend to show up more at both extremes. You see the guys in the board rooms. You don't see the guys in institutions or sleeping under overpasses.
It's a very controversial theory these days despite its plausibility and a great deal of evidence in its favor. It's what Larry Summers of Harvard resigned over rather than face a no-confidence vote. It's called the greater male variability hypothesis and the first I heard of it was that it was "proof that men are a giant breeding experiment carried out by women," rather like the Bene Gesserit.
Interesting. I heard it on Quora, delivered by a Scottish poster with no hint that it was controversial, but probably just another consequence of males only have one X chromosome.
Reading the "Contemporary controversies" section on this in Wikipedia, I note there is no reason given for the controversies, and wonder if it isn't part of the way left-leaning folk really don't like genetic or generally biological explanations, since those don't mesh well with the idea that everybody is equal. Or with an un-nuanced version of that idea.
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