Quote Originally Posted by Reinha View Post

Could it be that our work preferences and the things we enjoy doing are some of the many sex differences in humans?

I assure you, access, cultural taboos and the crappy behavior of people who don't want to see the status-quo change has a lot to do with it. Look at the gender makeup of the shop classes in a high school. Metal shop? 100% boys. Wood Shop? 100% boys. Auto Shop? 100% boys. Cooking class? Mostly girls. Textiles? 100% girls. Stagecraft, mostly girls. Acting, about evenly split.

The teachers get to decide who is in their class. That's why the status quo persists. A school can not afford to have one teacher per STEM field, especially if there's only 2 kids who pick it. So you largely get dealt losing hands unless your interest aligns with the teachers the school already has.