Could it be more subtle, such as just not encouraging girls towards STEM whilst doing so with boys? Just thinking aloud.
See the Norwegian Gender Paradox - pre-verbal babies still have typically gendered interests in toys.
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You can try to condition a girl to like trucks & a boy to like dolls but its unlikely to work if they don't.
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Interestingly, the children who do like toys more typically liked by opposite sex are likely to be gay or lesbian.
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This is believed to be related to high levels of testosterone or oestrogen they are exposed to in the womb.
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We tried doing the gender neutral toy thing. It really doesn't work. So much evidence it doesn't work.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/747999269072867328 …
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So, what you're saying is that at age 3 a child is unlikely to go against conditioning. I'm playing devil's advocate.
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But I don't know what that means. She did go against it. We tried to get her interested in train sets. She resisted it. Just wasn't.
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But it's not Devil's Advocate. The blank slate has been the standard social science model for decades. Utterly orthodox. Needs challenging
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We couldn't condition her into thinking she wanted to race the trains. She wanted to give them a personality & make them talk to each other.
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Hypothesis: children are given sex-appropriate toys. Become familiar with certain toy types. Choose familiar toys even when given a choice.
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Prove it. This keeps getting claimed with zero evidence. Meanwhile evidence of gender differences in interests mounts up and up.
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