soon books won't be intellectual anymore...

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00:00 my prediction
5:12 male flight
17:46 reading is slowly feminizing
25:34 why we should care

sources:
A Brief History of Gender Flight in the Workforce, Makenna Jonker, Medium (2024)
As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops, New York Times (2016)
Are Women Reaching Parity with Men in STEM?, Econofact (2022)
STEM Jobs See Uneven Progress in Increasing Gender, Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Pew Research Center (2021)
When Women Stopped Coding, NPR (2021)
How Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Daily JSTOR (2021)
Where has the rock star male novelist gone?, Finn McRedmond, The Irish Times (2023)
Where have all the young male novelists gone? Barry Pierce, Dazed (2021)
Gender bias in men’s reading habits still exists, Women's Prize (2024)


today we are discussing the phenomenon of reading becoming increasingly associated with young women, and the potential consequences of this! let me know your thoughts!

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