One list would probably feature communal personality traits such as compassionate, loves children, dependent, interpersonally sensitive, nurturing. These, you will note, are ideal qualifications for someone who wishes to live to serve the needs of others. On the other character inventory we would see agentic descriptions like leader, aggressive, ambitious, analytical, competitive, dominant, independent and individualistic. These are the perfect traits for bending the world to your command, and earning a wage for it.3 I don’t have to tell you which is the female list and which is the male one:
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A succinct critique of the "hey, women are better at men at some stuff! (that just happens to pay fuck all)" attitude.