More about sexism and division of labor

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "judyserenity" <judyshapiro at e...> wrote:

> Suppose that, in the Wizarding World (WW for short), only men could
> be athletes, and only women could be musicians.  (In fact, the only
> professional musicians I can remember being mentioned are females,
> Celestina Warbuck and the Weird Sisters.) 

At least the lead guitarist for The Weird Sisters is male (and human, 
which I had formerly wondered about) and I wouldn't be surprised if 
the whole band was male. It's in Quidditch Through the Ages, about 
the team The Pride of Portree:

"Their most famous Chaser, Catriona McCormack, captained the team to 
two League wins in the 1960s, and played for Scotland thirty-six 
times. Her daughter Meaghan currently plays Keeper for the team. 
(Her son Kirley is lead guitarist with the popular wizarding band The 
Weird Sisters.)

Frankie wrote:

> IMO, the gap stems from some women (NOT all) expecting to be
> rewarded for their hard work without asking and from some men 
> (again, NOT all) kicking and screaming for (and getting) raises 
> without doing much "work." 

At least some of it comes from women being, on the average, shorter 
than men (I myself am 5' 2.5" and taller than several of my female 
colleagues). Studies of the pay of male executives in the 1970s and 
1980s found that, among otherwise matching men, each additional inch 
of height resulted in an additional $1000/year in salary. It is said 
that all people have a reflex of perceiving taller = better (and 
therefore seeing the quality of the same quality work as better when 
done by a taller person) either because of conditioning when we were 
infants and our parents were much taller than us, or as a genetically 
inherited human instinct.