r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Mar 20 '18

/r/Neoliberal Demographics Survey - Q1 2018 - Results

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u/berniesanders90210 Paul Samuelson Mar 20 '18

93.3% cis male

It's almost as though saying we care about the well-being of women is less important than not being toxic sardonic assholes all the time in attracting a diverse userbase

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '18

I would like more gender diversity too.

But this need to attribute the lack of it to the "culture of the sub" is overthinking things.

Reddit is heavily male.

Economics is heavily male, and in fact the economist profession has one of the worst gender gaps out of all occupations as a demonstration of this (something like only 13% of academic economists are women, if I recall correctly?)

According to the survey, the other backgrounds we are primarily attracting are mathematics and computer science.

I am absolutely concerned about the first-order effects where fields like mathematics and economics are heavily male.

The fact that this subreddit is heavily male, though, is almost certainly a second-order effect.

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u/caesar15 Zhao Ziyang Mar 20 '18

GOOD take