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hello welcome to another video cheers
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from my froggy mug did you know that you
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can go on Amazon and buy a library
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backdrop for your conference calls like
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just a piece of fabric so that you can
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look like you have a full bookshelves
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when you're calling your colleagues this
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actually all my videos fake not real
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fake bookshelf imagine if I just pushed
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it and it just fell over like one of
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those decor pieces in old western videos
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for only $12 you too can look like you
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read i think this is very funny and just
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another very clear sign that we see
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reading and books as something
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intellectual books tend to be associated
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with knowledge even though a lot of
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books that we read are fictional as
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someone who likes to read a lot of books
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clearly I often notice that people tend
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to think you're really smart if you read
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a lot even though you don't have to be
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smart to read you just need to be
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literate there's a whole aesthetic dark
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academia around the intellectual idea of
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being someone who goes to an Oxbridge
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University and reads books i think we
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can all agree that reading is seen as
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this intellectual pursuit and if there's
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one thing that historically people love
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doing with historical pursuits is say
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that women can't be part of it women
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have always been kept from the realm of
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rationality whether that is philosophy
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or writing or science it would be too
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hard for the feeble female mind i'm
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sorry i cannot form a thought i'm just a
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girl people in the 20th century were so
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convinced that women didn't have the
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faculties to write that Virginia Wolf
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had to write a whole book about it
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defending women's ability to write and
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look at where she is now take that
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imaginary 20th century man that told
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Virginia Wolf she couldn't do it in 1996
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the Women's Prize for Fiction was
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established because the previous year
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the Booker Prize had no female nominees
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this is why I love having this community
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my book channel on YouTube which is
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mostly watched by women i love how
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reading has become really popular among
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young women on the internet the Booker
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Prize which used to be dominated by men
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is slowly but surely getting way more
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women on there too with women making
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strides in literature and writing and
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also being super active in reading
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communities online reading communities
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we are finally becoming a big part of
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something that is deemed intellectual
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something as timelessly high status as
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reading that's wonderful
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however this video is going to be a
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pessimistic video lately I was thinking
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I was doing the devilish woman thing of
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using my brain cells i know I shouldn't
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be doing that and I found myself having
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an opinion having a prediction about the
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future that is quite the doomer position
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so in this video I'm going to be
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explaining my thought process of that
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position and then by the end of the
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video I hope that you disagree with me
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and tell me that I'm being too negative
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but I also hope you see where I'm coming
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from so the position that I have my
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prediction about the future is that as
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reading becomes increasingly associated
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with women and a girl's hobby it will
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lose its status as something
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intellectual to understand this we must
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first talk about
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cheerleading first I want to tell you
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description when you think of
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cheerleading you're probably thinking of
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girls right doing super cool acrobatics
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work i I'm not American i never grew up
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with like cheerleading at school but I'm
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always very impressed by the way it
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looks in like TV shows anyway did you
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know that cheerleading used to be a
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men's pastime this was from the time
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before women were allowed at colleges so
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cheerleading squads would just be men
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from other sports cheering on their
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fellow athletes and it was considered
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really masculine because you know you
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are yelling you are controlling a crowd
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cheerleading that was a masculine thing
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to do but then the men they went to war
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and the women had to come in and cheer
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and this is when the stereotype of like
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the sexy cheerleader cheering on her man
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started to originate and then when the
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men came back from war you would think
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they would join the cheerleading squads
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again you would think well you know they
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used to do it before why don't they
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start doing it again now cheerleading
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could be this 50/50 gender split but
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cheerleading had become so much
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associated with this like sexy
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cheerleader girl thing that some
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colleges even forbade men from joining
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cheerleader squads now it is fully a
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feminine thing it is a girl's hobby this
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phenomenon that the men completely leave
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the moment that something becomes
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associated with girls and women is
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called gender flight or male flight it
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is the observation that women's jobs or
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hobbies are held under less esteem and
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when a job becomes associated with women
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men flock away to other fields the men
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no longer want to associate themselves
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with it because it is now low status it
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is now women's work as far as I'm aware
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this is not like a real sociological
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term but it's more like an observation
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and there are many more examples of this
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happening for example between the 1950s
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and the 2000s working in recreation so
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parks and camps changed from being
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predominantly male to predominantly
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female and with this change the median
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hourly wage dropped with 57 percentage
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points a similar thing happened when
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designers stopped being like a male
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thing and became more female thing where
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wages dropped with 34 percentage points
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and biologists where the wages dropped
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with 18 percentage points actually let's
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take a closer look at STEM as a woman
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with a STEM background I studied
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neurobiology i can tell you that yeah of
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course STEM has always been associated
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with men but things seem to be changing
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according to Pew Research on women in
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STEM jobs about half of all STEM
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bachelor degrees in 2017 were given to
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women but the thing is STEM is just not
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one study it's many different studies
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and it appears that there are specific
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studies that women tend to flock to
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specifically life sciences and social
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sciences i can give you example i
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studied neurobiology and that is that's
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women it's so many women life sciences
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so women are getting into STEM but the
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STEM fields that women are getting into
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like biology and social sciences tend to
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also be the fields that are seen as
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easier they're not as prestigious as
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something like physics or engineering
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but the point is that there are gender
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disparities within the STEM field and
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they're actually getting more pronounced
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fields like life science psychology and
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social sciences which started out with
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high female shares at the turn of the
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century became even more proportionally
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represented by women at the
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undergraduate level if we look at the
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number of men and women in psychology
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and biology here you can see that over
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the last 20 years the men are even
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slowly going away from them and the
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important thing to also note is that the
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STEM fields where there are more women
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also tend to have lower pay for example
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menheavy fields like computer science
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and engineering had a median salary of
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around 100,000 per year whereas for
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femaleheavy occupations like psychology
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it was only 74,000 or 64,000 for biology
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agricultural and environmental
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scientists and aside of these lower
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wages life sciences and social sciences
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just don't really have the same
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intellectual status in our society as
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computer science or engineering do now
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of course many things could be at play
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here maybe women just tend to be drawn
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more towards STEM fields that are seen
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as a little less intimidating maybe they
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are drawn more to fields that already
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have a lot of women in there because
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there's a lot of sexism in STEM and
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these fields maybe make them feel safer
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but the point is although women are
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getting into STEM more they are getting
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into specific fields which are seen as
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lower status have lower pay grades and
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are getting less and less men enrolling
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in them other examples of gender flight
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are nursing which also used to be done
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only by men mostly in military or
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religious services but after it was
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feminized by the popularity of Florence
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Nightingale it is now fully like a
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feminine job so much so that when a man
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is a nurse we tend to refer to him as a
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male nurse it's also famously one of
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those jobs that is hugely important but
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somehow vastly underpaid similar to
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education primary school education
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secondary school education is very much
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associated with women the work is really
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hard and the pay is low but the higher
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you get up on the education level like
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going more into university the pay rises
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and you also see more men there more
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male teachers this phenomenon where we
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value masculinity over femininity where
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we value things men do over the things
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that women mostly do is called
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androentism and it's kind of at the
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heart of this male flight phenomenon it
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even works the other way around did you
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know that computer science used to be
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female dominated now we tend to
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associate computer science with men and
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like billionaires but it was actually
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women who programmed the first computers
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operating early computers was a task
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often given to white women before the
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60s programming and computing was doing
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pretty routine math exercises so it was
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seen as this very routine mechanical job
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and so women's work coders tended to be
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very low status and pretty invisible to
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society but in the 60s there was this
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growing demand for technology and
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computer work so any professions having
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to do with computers rose in salary and
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that attracted many male professionals
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however they didn't want to be
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associated with these lowly invisible
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coders so there needed to be a vibe
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shift the status needed to be elevated
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computing historian Nathan Esmanger says
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that these new male computer scientists
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would claim that doing like computer
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science was to be a devote of a dark art
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a high priest a sorcerer it was to be
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privileged elite a master of one's own
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domain companies that used aptitude test
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for their hiring process tended to favor
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not just mathematically inclined people
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but specifically male candidates around
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the 70s the stereotype that arose around
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like the computer nerd was the whiz kid
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you know the nerd the socially awkward
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geek all male stereotypes if we look at
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the amount of women in computer science
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we can see that it is especially one
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decade later in the 80s that women just
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massively start to drop off one theory
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for this is because of the marketing of
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the personal computer this new little
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piece of tech was mostly marketed
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towards boys as a toy for playing games
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we started playing even more into the
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geeky boyish nerd stereotypes computers
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were pushed towards boys so if you did
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not grow up working with computers for
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example you're a girl and your parents
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just didn't buy you a computer cuz it
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was seen as a boy's toy or if you were
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of lower income because computers were
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still quite expensive you were already
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behind on your male peers that grew up
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playing around with computers they
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already had a leg up when going into
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computer related studies so although
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computing used to be literal woman's
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work it has now completely shifted the
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other way around like it's not like it's
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50/50 it is completely shifted the other
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way around and now it is seen as a boy
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club a field that is highaying held up
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in high regard once a field becomes
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feminized the men tend to disappear
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completely instead of becoming a 50/50
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thing and the status and pay drops of
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course there are many diverse factors
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that can contribute to this change and
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they're not all the same for every
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different field but there is a clear
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general pattern things women do lose
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their status and then men don't want to
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be associated with these lower status or
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lower paying pastimes so they disappear
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when we push women into roles that are
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highly respected we don't start valuing
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women more we start
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devaluing the role that they now occupy
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and this doesn't just go for jobs it
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also goes for hobbies we tend to really
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look down on things that are associated
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with women like for example boy bands we
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just think of annoying screaming women
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and these boy beds are not really
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respected for their music fanfiction
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makeup romantic
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comedies crafting hobbies like knitting
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and crocheting being into fashion loving
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fashion all things that general society
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tends to see as you know frivolous cute
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probably a little shallow not real art
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not real impressive just girl hobbies
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girl things and I tried so hard to come
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up with one thing that we see
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specifically as a female thing that is
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also very highly respected and maybe
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like intellectual like for men I could
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come up with many things like computer
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science chess philosophy being a doctor
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listening to Bob Dylan kind of male
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associated things but the only thing
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that I could come up with that is
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specifically associated with women and
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that we also highly respect was
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motherhood and even then being a mother
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is definitely not rewarded in our
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current society let alone seen as like
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an intellectual pursuit imagine if
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childc care was expected to be done by
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men like we would romanticize the hell
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out of it i'm so certain it would be
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like you know fatherhood it's just like
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you really have to be aware of all of
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these stages of childhood and you have
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to read so many books to understand what
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you're actually doing there's actually
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so much planning involved with all the
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things that the children need to do like
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going to their football practice and
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going to school you need to be so in
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tune with what the child needs when it
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can't actually communicate with you you
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actually need to be so intellectual to
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be a father and like a feeble female
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mind would not be fit for
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that anyway the point of all this was to
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show that we tend to look down on things
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that women do and the moment something
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becomes associated with women and
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especially like
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girls tends to kind of drop in status
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and I think that's kind of the thesis of
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this video that this may at some point
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happen to books at the beginning of this
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video we talked about how books have
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this like highly intellectual status
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right but it's also becoming more and
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more associated with women and like
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young women specifically i have many
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examples the first main example is book
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talk book talk is everywhere everyone is
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talking about book talk even if you
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yourself don't like reading you've
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probably seen videos of people talking
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about book talk like book talk has lost
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the plot uh book talk has gone too far
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can we even trust book talk anymore and
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let's be honest if you take one scroll
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through the book talk hashtag on Tik Tok
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you can see that it's mostly just women
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on there or men thirst trapping to
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summon women and when we tend to talk
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about book talk like in general I'm not
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talking about like niche people i'm
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talking the broad strokes it tends to be
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negative like either they're all reading
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bad books they're like ruining reading
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or these book talkies they're only
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reading smut he grabbed me by my waist
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pulled me in close and gave me a big
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kiss and then we lived happily ever
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after me in my and grabbed
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my I'm your What book is that oh it's so
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cute it's about these two fairies and
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they live in this magic wood and every
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night they on the table
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and out of him and he and Book talk is
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ruining reading romantic is ruining
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fantasy books whether you agree with
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that or not is not the point of this
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video i've made many videos already
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about book talk and like the discourse
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around book talk that is not the point
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of this video the point is that in the
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public
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consciousness book talk is kind of
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looked down on and I will say little
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side note I do notice how no one ever
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talks about the women the many women
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that get millions of views on book talk
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that talk about like literature that
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talk about poetry that have really
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amazing in-depth things to say about the
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books that they are reading um but
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people don't really like talking about
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that people tend to only focus on the
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women that aren't actually reading on
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book talk anyway my point is because
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people talk about book talk so much and
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book talk is mostly dominated by women
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this may lead to us associating reading
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with women hello editing Leody here i
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want to make it extra clear that I'm
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talking about visibility specifically i
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know book talk isn't an accurate
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representation of everyone in the reader
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community but it's definitely the most
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talked about online and therefore the
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most visible to young people so I think
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it's really shaping people's perception
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of reading as a hobby i'm also not
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saying that young women are reading more
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than men they are just the demographic
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that is most discussed online so I think
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this is making women the most visible
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audience to people who don't read and
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therefore shaping people's perception of
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what a reader looks like another example
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is the little trend of the gamer
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boyfriend and the reader girlfriend
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there are so many like really cute Tik
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Toks that I do kind of love about like
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how every gamer boy needs his like
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reader girl uh but it does kind of
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create this like gender split of like
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gaming for boys and then the girls
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they're reading another example of how
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reading is becoming like this woman
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associated thing is like the jokes
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around men reading books to attract
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women some of it is just like jokes of
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like men reading Sally Rooney to woo the
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women
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is it showing oh I hate when my feminist
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literature is sticking out of my back
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pocket guys you need to check this one
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out it's It's great thinking about me
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every night oh is it that Sally Rooney
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but there are also like actual reading
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thirst straps on Tik
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Tok but you never see trends of women
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reading books to attract men so the
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reading in question here is seen as
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something that women like specifically
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okay as I'm editing this I'm aware that
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these are all like super online examples
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so maybe that's just kind of my bubble
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uh and I do think that maybe this idea
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of reading being a girl hobby is very
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much an online stereotype that is coming
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to into existence but the online world
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is where young people shape their ideas
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so it may specifically be young people
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that are getting this idea that reading
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is like a girly hobby reading fiction is
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like something specifically for girls uh
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and whatever young people think of
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course like has influence in like what
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happens in the future and it's also
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especially young people that we're
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trying to get into reading more so if
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young people get this idea that reading
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is just for girls that is of course
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problematic and I will talk about that
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later into the video i also first have
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some more real life examples that are
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not just the internet there's also
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articles everywhere lamenting like the
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lack of men in literature apparently in
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the UK the number of men in the 20 young
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British novelists is going down like I
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said the Booker Prize which used to be
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dominated by men is now seeing more and
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more women this article claims that we
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have replaced our Kazo Ishigurus and
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William Boyds with Sally Rooney and
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Elena Ferrantes this piece at Dazed
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titled Where Have All the Young Male
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Novelist Gone talks about how apparently
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there are no like big household names in
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the UK anymore for young male artists or
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authors it is either already established
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male authors but the new and upcoming
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authors tend to be pretty much only
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women where do these articles ask have
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the young male novelists gone where is
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the young male reader is the gender
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flight already happening actually we
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already know that men don't want to
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engage with books written by women the
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Women's Prize for Fiction did research
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on people's book buying habits they
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found that although women read both men
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and women men tend to only buy books by
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other men buy books by men by
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by 44% of the top 20 bestselling male
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writers are bought by women whereas for
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female authors it is fewer than 20% of
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the purchases that are made by men i
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think we may be on the way to feminizing
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reading will reading soon just be a girl
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hobby will writing soon just be a
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woman's job i think we may be on the way
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to
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feminizing reading and given everything
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that we've talked about this video my
00:25:24
prediction is that this may lead to us
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devaluing reading reading losing its
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status as something intellectual or cool
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and I'm not just making this video to be
00:25:37
a doomer there's a reason I think this
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is really important because imagine what
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would happen if we started devaluing
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reading literacy rates are dwindling
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everywhere everywhere libraries and
00:25:51
schools are trying everything to get
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young people to read for fun again a
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population survey in the US found that
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in 2012 about 45% of people had read at
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least one novel or short story in the
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past year by 2017 this was only
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41.8% and in 2022 it dropped to
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37.6% also I found out that the same
00:26:17
research showed that over the past 20
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years men read less fiction than women
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about 20 percentage points so if we're
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just going by reading habits data has
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shown that men read 20 percentage point
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less fiction than women do reading is
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vital for your language development for
00:26:38
your critical thinking skills your
00:26:40
reading comprehension it's already
00:26:42
really hard to get young people to read
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and I'm afraid that if reading becomes a
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girl hobby if writing becomes a woman's
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job I'm afraid men are not going to want
00:26:54
to join in anymore because of the gender
00:26:56
fight phenomenon because we tend to
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devalue anything that women do we've
00:27:01
already seen that men tend to not want
00:27:03
to read books if they're written by
00:27:05
women it's going to be even harder to
00:27:08
get them to read and by the way I'm not
00:27:10
saying that women should stop
00:27:13
reading or that we should stop the
00:27:15
advancement of women in literature
00:27:18
obviously not it's just that we really
00:27:20
need to solve this problem of where we
00:27:22
devalue anything that women do but what
00:27:25
can we do about it i don't know get your
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sons and your male best friends to read
00:27:30
a book by a woman just in general make
00:27:32
people aware of our tendency to look
00:27:36
down on things that women do so the next
00:27:39
time you see like a public outrage about
00:27:42
something ask yourself does this really
00:27:46
deserve this level of
00:27:49
outrage or are people just piling on
00:27:53
because we see women having fun with
00:27:56
something ask yourself am I taking this
00:27:59
thing that the women in my life are
00:28:01
doing for granted or should I maybe
00:28:05
value it a little bit more but what do
00:28:07
you think am I just being too
00:28:10
pessimistic maybe maybe I'm just being a
00:28:12
doomer i mean Pew research from 2021
00:28:15
does show that there are no alarming
00:28:17
differences between the rereading habits
00:28:18
of men and women cuz like 73% of men say
00:28:22
they have read at least one novel in the
00:28:24
past year and 78% of women that is not
00:28:27
like a huge meaningful difference maybe
00:28:30
there is no need for alarm i do think it
00:28:32
is important to note that this research
00:28:34
was about books in general so fiction
00:28:38
and non-fiction together like I
00:28:40
mentioned early there is another study
00:28:43
like this from the survey of public
00:28:45
participation in the arts which showed
00:28:47
that men do read 20 percentage points
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less fiction than women so maybe reading
00:28:55
fiction will be seen as like a feminine
00:28:57
thing i don't know maybe reading isn't
00:29:00
being associated with women at all maybe
00:29:03
I'm just on the internet too much maybe
00:29:05
we should be happy that we are finally
00:29:08
associating something prestigious as
00:29:10
reading with young women again I hope
00:29:13
that I'm wrong but I would like to know
00:29:16
your opinion do you think I'm on to
00:29:18
something here and I think most
00:29:20
importantly if I am what should we do
00:29:23
about it and with that I'm just going to
00:29:25
end this video with a shout out to all
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00:29:33
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00:29:35
hope you have a wonderful rest of your
00:29:38
day and I will see you soon in another
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