Pioneer Wojtek, was: RE: [lbo-talk] it's inevitable

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Thu May 4 07:14:40 PDT 2006


On 5/4/06, j. devine said:

> If the stereotype is right, women are "multitaskers."

> This may be related to societal incentives to stick to

> jobs related to housewifery/childcare, or maybe

> there's some sort of genetic or hormonal component

> (though I doubt it). * * * [M]en are more likely

> likely to be single-minded (perhaps because they're

> so often exempted from househusbandry/childcare

> tasks), they can learn to do one task . . . really well.

> Put another way . . . Einstein wasn't pushed to really

> do anything with his life, having only an easy job. This

> allowed him to dream (to do gedanken experiments)

> and to figure out some basic questions in physics. If

> he'd had to take care of kids, on the other hand, ...

. . . he might have been a "she" and might have been those housefraus with kids, Rosalyn Yallow, or Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or . . . .



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