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dave_wright

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dave_wright··on The male inequality problem is getting worse
I've noticed that my male colleagues are, generally speaking, outpaced by my female colleagues. The latter tend to have more drive to succeed, higher social intelligence, and are more competent.

I'm not sure why this is, but I expect it's because women and girls are now being given equality of opportunity to a greater extent than ever before, and it turns out they're just better at most things in our modern society.

So I'm not convinced that "male inequality" is the best term to describe this state of affairs. When women having more equal opportunities leads to worse outcomes for some men, is that really inequality for the men? Or are we just seeing natural differences play out.

Maybe the future for most men is work where brute force and strength is required, as that's the only edge they really have on women, comparing group to group.