Jordan Peterson - Women in High Paying Jobs

I found this longer video of his on the same subject to be better at explaining the nuances of his viewpoint: ▶ this video

in “Why Women Leave Engineering (2011) [pdf]” · View on HN

I think Jordan Peterson had one of the best takes on why successful women struggle to make both a family and a career happen and why so many screech their careers to a halt when they hit 30: ▶ this video

in “The real reason women freeze their eggs” · View on HN

Jordan Peterson (I know, I know...) made an interesting remark in one of his lectures recorded long before he became famous: "Once you make about $60,000 a year for your family, but let's say for you personally, additional income makes zero has zero impact on your quality of life." ▶ this video

in “Why aren't smart people happier?” · View on HN

"It's a very rare woman who at the age of 30 doesn't consider having a child her primary desire. And the ones that don't consider that, generally in my observation there's something that isn't quite right in the way that they're constituted or looking at the world ." - Jordan Peterson[1] [1] ▶ this video

in “Fearful of bias, Google blocks gender-based pronouns from new AI tool” · View on HN

I was curious to see if he'd actually said that or if you were misrepresenting a more reasonable claim. I'm not familiar with Jordan Peterson but managed to find this video: ▶ this video ... in which he says that high-powered careers are very unpleasant due to hyper-competition among people who are exceptionally willing to tilt their work-life balance way toward work, and that most (but not all) of such people are men. Which doesn't sound like that unusual a claim, really: it's a fairly mainstream belief that women average more family-focused than men, and you only need a small difference in means between populations to get a big difference in representation at the far tails of a trait's probability distribution. (I would have preferred that he make the point with less bluster and more graphs, but that's just a matter of taste.) Is that what you were alluding to, or does he somewhere else contradict this to make the crazy and very different claim that "only men have high enough motivation to be successful in competitive industries"?

in “Lessons of an MIT Education” · View on HN

"...Two retired women partners at the firm have joined her lawsuit, but a larger number of current women partners have actually condemned it." So it's not "law firms vs. women", more women actually support the law firm in this case. Of course that's not proof of anything, but it does suggest it could simply be a normal case of people disagreeing about compensation. In these sorts of cases, you tend to go for any "weapon" you can, and "discrimination" is a pretty powerful one, even if there's nothing to it. Of course the stats don't look good, but we all should know that correlation ≠ causation. Jordan Peterson, who apparently works with law firms, gives a very different reason: ▶ this video TL;DW: Law firms try their darnedest to keep women, but most women just aren't as mono-maniacal as the few men who make it to the very top.

in “How Top U.S. Law Firms Get Away with Paying Women Less” · View on HN