> Except the gender ratio in science/engineering is anything but universal across cultures. 70% of science/engineering students in Iran are women: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyguttman/2015/12/09/set-to-ta.... Indeed, in many parts of the world that are not known for being "liberal" with regard to gender equality, women make up a significantly higher percentage of the scientific workforce than in the U.S.: http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-science-technology-e.... (44% in Latin America, 40% in Eastern Europe, 37% in the Arab states).
Later in the document he goes on to point out that gender disparities are greater in more liberal countries (e.g. great disparity in US than Iran, greater disparity in Finland than in the US). Interpreting this as our culture being somehow more oppressive (and then Finland's even more so) requires an "impressive level of intellectual contortion" - if anything it seems to be evidence that there are differences in preferences, and therefore greater freedom -> greater divergence.
Thing is, even within STEM area's, there are huge differences in m/f ratios. Computer science and engineering? Here in Belgium that sits at 10% female. Maths and other sciences make up for that when you only look at the big "STEM" picture.
Grrr. If you adjust for population of course the top places in the list will be dominated by small populations who've had a particularly bad time recently.
When I can, I try to just not have a computer at home for this reason. I have an e reader and a shitty cellphone that can is hard enough to use that I don't waste much time with it.
The trick is trying to find things that you can only use productively.
Terrible WiFi can also work if you can set it up. Something with 300ms lag is enough to stop me playing games. If you live with other people making sure your workstation is in the living room and not your bedroom also helps.
Huh... approaching this from the opposite side, when my boss has suggestions I always take it as an opportunity to let them feel some ownership of the work, even on occasions where the suggestions don't turn out to be that useful in practice ("I implemented your suggestion of X, which led me to come up with Y").
Trying to game professional relationships goes both ways I guess :)
Relentlessness and fearlessness are inherently masculine words?
So if I want to find candidates with the qualities of relentlessness and fearlessness, I need gender neutral synonyms for these now... Bloomberg I think this is getting out of hand.
Without taking gender into account, the word relentlessness sounds more like a negative trait than a positive one. They're someone who's unwilling to deviate from their plan of action, because their plan is to just head straight for the goal.
I'd go with dauntlessness, someone who's dauntless won't let an obstacle stop them, but will go around it instead of through it.
That's dodging the issue though... the issue was that relentless is apparently masculine. What if they say the same thing about dauntless?
I don't think relentless has to be as mindless as you say. Someone who gets in the zone and attacks a hard problem 20 different ways until they solve it is relentless in my books.
> Depression is an illness
Well, not really. Depression is a "disorder". You can be more biologically predisposed to depression, but that isn't the same thing.
