I'm not jumping to conclusions - they are all drawn directly from the things you've said and the way you've said them. And there's no such thing as "natural" personality differces between genders. Human beings are not binary, although there are socialized traits that are considered acceptable for each - but that's part of patriarchy. And what is your proof that the main disparity between male and female CEOs is not sexism? Because I've got plenty of evidence that it is - both direct and from our history. 60 years ago women couldn't even get a credit card or a home loan in their own name because they weren't considered competent enough to manage that, even if they had a good job. Do you honestly think those beliefs have completely evaporated?
"Unfortunately, many discriminatory factors reduce the demand for female CEOs. For one thing, women are subject to gender stereotypes. The stereotypical qualities of effective leaders – such as aggression, ambition and dominance – tend to overlap with the stereotypical qualities of men more than women. As a result, men are often considered natural leaders when they exhibit traits like aggression, whereas women displaying these same qualities might be penalized for appearing “unfeminine.”
Another problem is women are the victims of in-group favoritism. People tend to evaluate others who are similar to them more favorably. This bias hurts women because nearly 80% of board members in large U.S. public companies are men. These are the people responsible for hiring and paying CEOs, after all.
In addition, women experience different socialization processes than men. Even as children, males tend to receive more encouragement to lead, compete and take risks than females do. As a result, men often have more opportunities to develop these skills, which also may help them ascend and succeed in CEO positions."
Different socialization and different opportunities is what sexism means. Not just open hostility, although there's often plenty of that as well.
Go read the stuff that I linked you because contrary to what you've claimed, you are being defensive and reverting to tired tropes that feel comfortable to you rather than engaging with the facts, which are apparently somewhat confronting. All women who disagree with you or talk about rape or inequality as a problem are not necessarily feminists. I'm a sociologist. I'm interested in the data about how our culture functions and where it doesn't do so very well.
We most definitely live in a rape culture - demonstrably. Read the story I linked you about that and then come back and tell me if you still think it's not so. Just because you are unaware of the specifics doesn't mean they don't exist. How we compare to other times in history is immaterial.
“A culture where every 37 seconds an American is sexually assaulted, where 1 in 16 women say their first sexual experience was forced, where out of every 1000 rapes, only 6 results in incarceration — that’s a rape culture.
There is no other crime where judges are so often reluctant to give the appropriate sentence because they don’t want to “ruin the life” of a promising young man, even though he’s already ruined the life of a promising young woman. There is no other crime where if the perpetrator took pictures of himself committing the crime and sent them to the victim, that the grand jury would still decline to indict.”
If you can’t be bothered to read my story, here’s an excerpt from a report by Amnesty International that confirms it:
"Women’s right to equality before the law is frequently violated in domestic criminal jurisdictions because their evidence is distrusted. Women, therefore, have been treated unequally in that their right to freedom from sexual coercion by a perpetrator is extremely limited. In domestic jurisdictions, rape and sexual assault laws have often put people in terms of a ‘proposer’ of sexual acts, and the ‘acceptor’ is deemed to consent to the act unless their resistance is made clear, especially by using physical resistance. This is contrary to an approach to the criminal law which incorporates the human right to equality."
Women who have sex with women orgasm at levels close to that of men. Only women who have sex with men have significantly fewer orgasms. If you'd like to test out your theory about more sex being the most important thing, I suggest you join a swinger's club or other venue where you can reasonably expect to have a lot of sex, but then stop yourself and only orgasm every third or fourth time and see it that seems acceptable to you. Better yet, stop yourself every fourth time you masturbate and see how fun that is.
I'm not intending to be rude, but your rebuttals are patently absurd. They bear no relationship to reality. You're opining on things based on how they seem to you from a defensive perspective. The fact that you don't experience yourself as being defensive because this stuff all feels right to you is one of those mind tricks I was describing to the penguin in my original comment.
