Gender Bias in Character Creation

[Reinha]

I agree with most of what you said, but I think it's odd to suggest that STEM isn't work that women actually like to do. I seriously doubt there's anything hard-wired into women's minds that disincline them toward math and engineering and such - at least no more than for humans in general.

I don't think it's odd at all. Apparently, if you arrange countries based on how equal men and women are, the more equal the society the more differences there are in occupational choices between men and women. Women go into STEM less in countries with more equality.

Either there is somehow the most social obstacles to doing "men's work" in the most equal places on Earth (which I seriously doubt), or women on average prefer to do different work from men when social security and other systems in place allow more freedom to choose one's occupation. The latter seems more likely to me, but that doesn't mean there are huge differences between the way men and women think. Some small differences just show up when you look for them in large scale statistics.