can we believe what we see?, page-23

Petersons views on the matter are based on a certain set of premises and from those positions of course it makes sense - particularly to those who lack the imagination to see other possibilities.

there are a couple of matters that drive his view that the pay gap is a fiction and they have to do with his version of economic value. He believes that the jobs which women choose (ie caring etc etc) are not scalable and therefore have less economic value and this the pay differential between male and female dominated roles is justified and not a pay gap. Underpinning this is his view that intractable differences between male and female brains mean that this difference cannot be eliminated.

peterson is a highly articulate and very certain man and some of his ideas I don’t mind but while he talks about conditioning and upbringing as contributing factors for a range of problematic social behaviours he seems to have more difficulty recognising the role of social conditioning in matters of gender

you can draw on a range of disciplines and thinking to demonstrate that one is right. He is highly skilled at doing this but you have to believe his fundamental premises are correct in the first place and I don’t think he has provided the evidence on those.