Oh, great.
Within traditional gender development, it's generally devolved to this:
Women offer sex to get the nest.
Men offer the nest to get the sex.
Of course, with the increasing economic independence of women, the formula is getting skewed, and that's a good thing.
Another legacy holdover of traditional gender development:
Men engage in cooperation to get the prize (prey, harvest).
Women engage in competition to get the men.
That legacy comptetition-versus-cooperation mindset is undoubtedly fodder for a further discussion, but not me, not right now. And again, that doesn't hold true across the board. Men compete for available women. Women cooperative for mutual goals.
But I'm in a female-dominated profession, and I have heard on more than one occasion from female colleagues, "I'd much rather deal with men in business than women."
Hey, I'm egalitarian by nature, and statements like that have been jarring. But they're stated honesty, candidly, and experientially, so I have to assume there's something behind that apparent rejection of sisterhood. And I do have conclusions, but maybe for another posting someday.
Within traditional gender development, it's generally devolved to this:
Women offer sex to get the nest.
Men offer the nest to get the sex.
Of course, with the increasing economic independence of women, the formula is getting skewed, and that's a good thing.
Another legacy holdover of traditional gender development:
Men engage in cooperation to get the prize (prey, harvest).
Women engage in competition to get the men.
That legacy comptetition-versus-cooperation mindset is undoubtedly fodder for a further discussion, but not me, not right now. And again, that doesn't hold true across the board. Men compete for available women. Women cooperative for mutual goals.
But I'm in a female-dominated profession, and I have heard on more than one occasion from female colleagues, "I'd much rather deal with men in business than women."
Hey, I'm egalitarian by nature, and statements like that have been jarring. But they're stated honesty, candidly, and experientially, so I have to assume there's something behind that apparent rejection of sisterhood. And I do have conclusions, but maybe for another posting someday.