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[EricHiggin]

Torillian said:

EricHiggin said:

Like when it comes to building a skyscraper let's say. Most male engineers won't give a crap about how the building looks aesthetically, or how well the spaces inside are laid out. All they really care about is building a thin and super tall structure that won't fall over or collapse. That's it, because it's overcoming a challenge that they find wicked cool. Now the engineering firm is forced to have some people who need to make sure it looks good enough and is well laid out so consumers will like it and will buy into it, but that's a 'because we have to reason, not because we want to'. That's where you would want female or lgbt engineers who are going to care much more so about that and will do a far better job than most straight men would.

This is a fun hypothetical but do you have anything to back up the idea? Because I looked up the gender ratio of architects (the people that would be the most interested in aesthetics of a building) and women make up 27% of them while making up 17% of civil engineers. A measurable difference but nothing that makes me think that civil engineering is the domain of dudes while the aesthetics of buildings is ladies' work. 

You can see them as being "naturally a certain way" but when it comes to prescriptions I want everyone to do what they like regardless of societal pressure. If you want to be a house wife or house husband, yay, if you want to work as an engineer also fine. 

Most people aren't top tier in terms of what they do. Just because there's less woman, doesn't mean those woman aren't the top tier in their line of work. I wouldn't exactly say the majority of buildings are all well laid out and extremely pleasing to the eye.

Nobody also said it's ladies work. What was said was that females and lgbt would do a much better job in those positions because they care more about the people who will be impacted. Not all positions require that human touch.

Some prefer that people simply do what they like. Some prefer people do what makes most sense. It's why rules and regulations exist. You can't just have everyone doing whatever they like, and for those who are negatively impacted by the rules, we as a society see it as "tough luck" for the most part. Letting everyone simply do what they like for work will lead to far less highly skilled professionals and less efficiency overall. Those things mainly come when focusing on having the best who can do those jobs, taking those positions, whether they like the role itself or not. Just depends on what society as a whole decides is most important to them.