A Northern Kentucky girls basketball team went 7-1 playing in a boys division, but they aren't competing at the regional end-of-season tournament. The team says they were banned from participating because they're girls. (TL:DR — they didn’t want to risk the girls winning the tournament in the boys league and embarassing the boys)
https://www.ksby.com/caitlin-clark-offered-5m-to-join-ice-cube-s-big3-basketball-league#:~:text=Iowa%20women's%20basketball%20superstar%20Caitlin,to%20an%20article%20from%20TMZ.
Iowa women's basketball superstar Caitlin Clark has been offered a $5 million contract to join Ice Cube's BIG3 basketball league, the rapper confirmed Wednesday.
Edit: Shaquille O’Neal said he’s only watching the women’s NCAA tournament this year because it’s more exciting and a higher level of play than the men’s.
Anyone who references Bateman is a putz. His "theories" were disproven decades ago (although they still hang around because they are so attractive to guys like you.) I already linked you a story about how much junk science that is.
"Our field might profitably do some soul-searching: Why were Bateman’s obvious errors overlooked for so long? As we said in our primary report, legions of graduate students have for the past 40 years read and discussed Bateman. Why did they not bring attention to the errors? Surely all of them, among biologists at least, understand the elements of mutation, inheritance and Mendelian genetics. Why did their professors not challenge Bateman’s results? We are inclined to the idea that Bateman’s results and conclusions are so similar to status quo, dominating world-views (competitive males, dependent females) that pre-existing cultural biases of readers may have dampened skepticism and objectivity. Perhaps lack of repetition is simply due to lack of professional incentives such as funding for repetitions. (Although that doesn’t explain why so few people ever pointed to the glaring errors in methodology — comment mine)”
The pay gap is essentially a motherhood penalty and a large percentage of CEOs are sociopaths - a much higher percentage than in the general population. In addition, women are penalized for risks that don’t pan out much more than men are, so they tend to be more careful about taking them — although pregnancy is about 20 times as dangerous as skydiving so it seems pretty silly to assert that women don’t routinely take risks.
“We posed the question at the beginning of this article of whether women’s greater reluctance (as compared to men) to initiate negotiations over resources, such as higher compensation, could be explained by the differential treatment of male and female negotiators. The results of these experiments suggest that the answer to this question is yes. In the first three experiments, male evaluators penalized women more than men for attempting to negotiate for higher compensation.
”In other words, the ratio of negative consequences to potential gain may often be significantly higher for women in certain circumstances — making the women not necessarily less risk averse but rather only willing to take risks that have some reasonable probability of positive outcomes.
Exeter University psychologist Michelle Ryan surveyed more than eight hundred managers at a major consultancy firm, and found that women on average were less willing than men to make sacrifices for their career, and to take career risks in order to get ahead. Closer examination revealed that this was because women tended to perceive less benefit in taking risks and making sacrifices. But this was not because they were simply less ambitious. Rather, they had lower expectations of success, fewer role models, less support, and less confidence that their organization was a meritocracy.
Fine, Cordelia. Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society (p. 121). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.
You keep making the same mistake over and over again, citing correlation and/or outcome without actually looking at context or evaluating true causation. That correlation does not equal causation is the number one principle of the scientific method. It's been fun, but I don't have any more time to devote to swatting this stuff down with reality and actual science (not junk science). 👋
