A new paper looks at one unintended consequence of the MeToo movement: senior male academics became more reluctant to collaborate with junior female colleagues, thereby harming the latter’s career prospects.
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You ever wonder what a Martian might think if he happened to land near an emergency room? He’d see an ambulance whizzing in and everybody running out to meet it, tearing the doors open, grabbing up the stretcher, scurrying along with it. ‘Why,’ he’d say, ‘what a helpful planet, what kind and helpful creatures.’ He’d never guess we’re not always that way; that we had to, oh, put aside our natural selves to do it. ‘What a helpful race of beings,’ a Martian would say. Don’t you think so?
― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist, April 2002
Prosperity does not depend upon “great men,” either as socialist planners or capitalist entrepreneurs. Intentionally in generally is wildly exaggerated as a cause of social outcomes. Institutions matter far more.
