Thank you for a thought provoking article. I do wonder when they calculate the proportion of NEETs whether they factor in women who are housewives, with or without children. It would seem odd to count a housewife, especially with a baby, in the NEET statistics.
Thanks! On the NEET point, I believe housewives are included, but NEET figures are for people between 16-24, so the number of those with children is probably very low
I clicked the link BTL on the David Goodhart piece.
Women's progress is precarious in a way that men don't really have a model for in their everyday lives. It depends on abundant cheap energy and everyone happily continuing to tell the story that men and women should be, do and have the same things. In a free society men would take everything, so women depend on men being willing to restrain themselves or be restrained. In liberal democracies women are expected to 'pass' as men in the same way that many trans people aspire to pass as a person of the other sex; a stressful business that, as has been noted, makes them perpetually reliant on the kindness of strangers.
Hardly conducive to relaxation, much less sustainable mental health and wellbeing.
Women do better at school because they mature much more quickly and this confers a significant but temporary cognitive advantage. It is worth observing too that while average IQ is about the same between the sexes there are far more male geniuses than female geniuses which is why the top 100 chess players are 99-100% male
Thank you for a thought provoking article. I do wonder when they calculate the proportion of NEETs whether they factor in women who are housewives, with or without children. It would seem odd to count a housewife, especially with a baby, in the NEET statistics.
Thanks! On the NEET point, I believe housewives are included, but NEET figures are for people between 16-24, so the number of those with children is probably very low
I clicked the link BTL on the David Goodhart piece.
Women's progress is precarious in a way that men don't really have a model for in their everyday lives. It depends on abundant cheap energy and everyone happily continuing to tell the story that men and women should be, do and have the same things. In a free society men would take everything, so women depend on men being willing to restrain themselves or be restrained. In liberal democracies women are expected to 'pass' as men in the same way that many trans people aspire to pass as a person of the other sex; a stressful business that, as has been noted, makes them perpetually reliant on the kindness of strangers.
Hardly conducive to relaxation, much less sustainable mental health and wellbeing.
Women do better at school because they mature much more quickly and this confers a significant but temporary cognitive advantage. It is worth observing too that while average IQ is about the same between the sexes there are far more male geniuses than female geniuses which is why the top 100 chess players are 99-100% male