https://progressivebeacon.substack.com/p/belief-in-female-idiocy-explains
We’ve studied how systematically losing high achievers has gone for middle America (not well). But to my knowledge we haven’t studied how losing out on female achievement in particular has impacted rural areas.
I’m guessing it’s been big. We know that increases in female achievement are responsible for a huge portion of US GPD growth over the past 50 years.
Which likely means increases in female achievement have been a huge contributor to the rise of superstar cities — places where women move and achieve thrive.
We know that places women tend to leave and don’t achieve are seeing decreasing male achievement and rising violent authoritarian misogyny.
Thus, belief in female idiocy is probably a huge contributor to, and results from, both the urban/rural divide and agglomeration effects/superstar cities.