"The countries that empower women also empower them, indirectly, to pick whatever career they’d enjoy most and be best at."https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/ …
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Mason, agreed. You raise valid new issues. I denigrated no field. I didn’t insinuate what women should do. I merely reject this article’s core thesis that women are “best” at non-technical fields, and its disregard for obvious factors like role models, systemic discrimination.
With respect, the findings here are that young women (generally) do as well with STEM as young men, and better at reading. If anything, I think this highlights the distinct possibility that early academic environments, in general, actually work better for girls.
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While I don't discount the importance of having a diverse set of role models "who look like me" in childhood, it doesn't seem unlikely that at the population level, men and women don't look exactly the same. Individuals will routinely break the mold, and that's perfectly fine.
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FWIW, I can code, and I've also spent time researching K-12 teaching (as you'd expect, female-dominated). My suspicion is that men tend to be more status-motivated, not that careers in child education are less worthwhile and should thus be vacated by self-respecting women.
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I mean, girls get better grades and have higher graduation rates than boys in high school. It's not exactly controversial.
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