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Marcus Lewis
I thought gender didn't exist anymore
Annie
This book is more about communities and opportunities and less about individuals.
Christopher Adam
While you are correct, Gladwell never explicitly implies gender to be a determining factor, it's also important that he doesn't argue against it. This book is about the "statistical outliers". In other words, perhaps the gender discrepancy is so well understood as to not be considered an outlier as far as factors determining success.
I agree, a chapter on gender would have made sense, but I don't think he would have had anything to add to the conversation that isn't already obvious.
I agree, a chapter on gender would have made sense, but I don't think he would have had anything to add to the conversation that isn't already obvious.
Chinedu
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Tahar
what are you talking about? why should he talk about genders in his book? didn't you read the synopsis on the title of the book? I honestly don't understand, if the author of the post or someone else could explain what this person means by "talking about genders" I would really appreciate it?
Casey Willits
Looking for statistical outliers in 51% of the population might be difficult. But I do think there are bound to be outliers among women that would tell some interesting stories. I have long thought that daughters in one-child two-parent hetero families probably have a different experience than if they have a male sibling. With the rise of single-child families, an increasing proportion of women grow up without having to share parental support with other siblings, but more specifically with male siblings. Anecdotally I have seen millennial fathers label themselves as "Girl Dad" and pour into their daughters the kind of attention I always assumed fathers poured into their firstborn sons.
Nithilan
Well, I suppose it's already been established that a lot of women may have risen to great heights if not for being discriminated against on the basis of their gender. However, I think that's slowly fading away, and doesn't really align with this book's agenda, which is to highlight the veiled statistical and inadvertent circumstances that influence success. However, yes, a chapter on gender might have made sense.
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