• lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    For jobs behind the camera, there are something like, only 13% of women employed in the film industry.

    That doesn’t necessarily imply sexism at all, note. If it turns out women are just 6 times less likely than men to want to have these jobs, then this percentage would be 13% in a perfect non-sexist world. (Though 13% is concerningly low; the percentage of women that go into computer science is around 20-25% and that’s one of the strongest effects. Plausibly the remaining 1.5-2x difference here is due to sexism; I can buy filmmaking being one of the most sexist industries).

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      3 minutes ago

      If it turns out women are just 6 times less likely than men to want to have these jobs,

      Suggesting that women don’t want to work in a fully bro-culture environment isn’t really the best arguement you could make.