I was alluding to this kind of research, as well as my experiences, when we (@Abebab & @maria_ndrnh) were talking about how some (all?) subjects are gendered in UK but not e.g. where I'm from: "Girls Lead in Science Exam, but Not in the United States" https://nyti.ms/UoNta5 
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But also, a relevant comment: "the countries with the highest male adv. (DK, LI, DE, AT, ...) are the ones which are the most feminist countries? In contrast the countries with the highest female adv. (JO, AL, QA, KG, ...) are usually at the bottom of the gender equality index"
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I'm from one of the most sexist counties. I'm aware of the mechanism. It goes something like this: women aren't good at anything. So then we (women) just pick _any_ subject we like. While in the West you say: women are only good at biology and languages, so they do those. QED
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I've explained this quite a few times on Twitter and had this discussion with quite a few people.
@zerdeve is also from a very sexist country and knows this pattern. It's obvious to women what's going on if they get a chance to step back. Women are not driven by random choices...1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
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but we — as are men of course — driven by the mores of the societies we live in. If they push up towards biology, arts, and humanities then we assume that gender role. In the countries where it's more normalised to think women are bad at everything (so not even good at bio) then
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we are more free to choose anything we want given there is no pressure towards certain subjects just our individual choice to study. So once a women has chosen she is going to study, then she has relative "freedom" to pick anything as she has been sociliased to believe in e.g.
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the male geek. The male geek is a huge problem in the West because it drives women away from STEM. The end.
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I take offense at this overly general condemnation.
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The male geek is not a person. It refers to a stereotype in the West that only men and boys like computers.
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For some examples and historical context, see this article. A really good one is "Game Boy". https://www.polygon.com/features/2013/12/2/5143856/no-girls-allowed …
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also up above two typos: up = us, and "__hasn't__ been socialised to believe in the male geek".
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