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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Not to turn this into a sociology discussion, but for anyone unaware: this is a fairly common pattern.

    Women often pioneer fields like this, but as soon as it becomes seen as something “important” out “respectable” then suddenly it becomes male dominated.

    The opposite also happens, where as society deems something as unimportant, a male dominated field will become female dominant - see teaching for an unfortunate example of a field that used to be highly paid and respected, and is now largely looked down on.

    Sorry, don’t mean to go off on a tangent - it just bugs me and I think more people should be aware of it.