[Note: askblog had an existence prior to the virus crisis. I still schedule occasional posts like this one.]
The impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality. A commenter gives this link.
A new NBER working paper.
[Note: askblog had an existence prior to the virus crisis. I still schedule occasional posts like this one.]
The impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality. A commenter gives this link.
A new NBER working paper.
You linked to a different paper. Here is a correct link:
http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~mdo738/research/COVID19_Gender_March_2020.pdf
(The paper is mostly speculative.)
But to balance this out, I thought I read somewhere that the death rates due to the virus were skewed very heavily against males (something like 70%). Shouldn’t this be a cause for celebration against patriarchy?
Yeah I think it’s about 2:1, and that’s despite the fact that there a far more old women than old men. If a pandemic killed over twice as many women as men the oped section of every major paper would be shouting angrily about it every day. Much like this paper casually noting that ordinary recessions disproportionately harm men (which apparently doesn’t ‘raise concerns about gender disparities’), it’s just normal for males to disproportionately suffer. That’s just the way the world should be apparently.
Not really sure that the road to sociology is all bad. The best policy piece I have read in a long time appears to be as much sociology as anything else: James Capretta’s excellent AEI framework for reform of medical training: https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/policies-affecting-the-number-of-physicians-in-the-us-and-a-framework-for-reform/ Capretta’s recommendations are bolstered by Steve Salerno’s “Declining Med School Standards in a Time of Pandemic “ at Quillete which is also sociological in nature. And also at Quillette, Colman Hughes’ “Do COVID-19 Racial Disparities Matter” is a fine work of sociological writing. All these writers deserve our respect and appreciation for taking mainstream sociology on by the horns. In so doing, they restore integrity to the marketplace of ideas.
Has anyone pointed out yet that the stay-at-home orders cost men 1 dollar in wages for every 77 cents that women lose? J/K
They cite the closure of schools as a female disadvantage, but it’s actually a great female advantage for the vast majority of female K12 teachers who work for public schools. Yes, they’re at home now, but they’re still getting paid, which means that they no longer need daycare for their children (and don’t have to pay for it). Sheesh.
If you threw guinea pigs from the Tower of Pisa and x-rayed their broken bones you might eventually discover the theory of gravity.