And nor should they.
Trine-Maria linked to a rant by Clay Shirky on male versus female behaviour. He rants about reasons why men are ahead of women in their carreers. He concludes that women are not self-promotional enough, whereas men more easily overstate their capabilities and thus bluff their way into a carreer. Women could do better when they learn from male self-esteem.
A snippet:
Now this is asking women to behave more like men, but so what? We ask people to cross gender lines all the time. We’re in the middle of a generations-long project to encourage men to be better listeners and more sensitive partners, to take more account of others’ feelings and to let out our own feelings more. Similarly, I see colleges spending time and effort teaching women strategies for self-defense, including direct physical aggression. I sometimes wonder what would happen, though, if my college spent as much effort teaching women self-advancement as self-defense.
I suggest you head to Shirky’s blog to read the whole (long) article, and make up your own mind on his point.
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I would go even further: Man have to change their behaviour as much as women are asked to do.
Why should women change the way they are, behaving stupidly male just because men are not willing to be more respectful, to value qualified women and to promote them instead of trying to be ahead all the time, leaving the qualified and motivated others behind just to be on top of a food chain that is dominated by idiots?
Spot on!