The Feminization of Academia


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Dialogues #67

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For the first time in history, women hold substantial cultural and institutional power. Men and women differ, on average, in their values: women are more harm-averse, equity-oriented, and prone to resolving conflict through social exclusion. As a result, shifting sex compositions can bring palpable cultural change. The transition has been particularly dramatic in academia, where women were once almost entirely excluded and now constitute majorities.

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Imagine doing top-tier psychological research on all the topics that tend to get you "in trouble" in academia: sex differences, why the politicization of institutions is a bad idea, why science has become more biased against unpleasant-but-true findings.

Those are just some of the topics Dr. Cory Clark researches and publishes on.

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In my experience, most people have no idea that men are, on any metric, not doing well these days. Far more women attend and graduate college than men. More women get master's degrees than men. More women earn PhDs than men. There are more women professors than men. Women are more likely to get hired than men. The studies show that both women and men root for women more than men. And this is a trend that shows no signs of slowing down. So it's important to ask:

Do you think this cultural reversal might have sweeping cultural implications for decades to come?

I learned a ton in my conversation with Cory about how comprehensively women are now dominating in academia and beyond. I hope you enjoy it. If you could do me a huge favor and subscribe to the YouTube channel when you watch, that would be huge. Thank you.

Where have I been?

For the past couple months, I have had too many projects going at the same time, including a massive writing project I'm very excited about. Hopefully I can reveal more on that down the line. I'm also in the process of some rebranding, making a few changes here and there.

In case you missed them, I released a few other episodes of the podcast. I'll highlight a couple. I spoke with Maddie Rowley, a journalist at The Free Press, now owned by CBS.

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We talked about the pursuit of truth and journalistic ethics, among other things.

With the networking help of my friend Tom Morris (who was on my very first podcast episode), I had the awesome privilege of speaking to Whole Foods founder and former CEO John Mackey.

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Why would this multi-millionaire have any interest in going on an upstart podcast? You'll have to watch or listen to the episode to find out.

Until next time.

Jared

P.S. After some interest I couldn't ignore, my Intro to Logic course is back for a limited time here.


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