Progress Studies is a combination of academic discipline and political movement aiming to study “the causes of civilizational progress”, i.e., the “economic, technological, scientific, and cultural advancements that have transformed human life and raised standards of living over the past couple of centuries”. ...The article argues that women became much more influential in about year 1970, and that is when progress consequently declined.This is why, if you’re looking for people who are both interested and able in engineering, disagreeable enough to break consensus, and willing to take risks for uncertain payoffs, you will overwhelmingly find men. As a result, technology/markets/future and ideas-oriented groups tend to be around 90% male.9
A podcast discussing this is The Data: Women May Have Broken Western Civilization.
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