> Society should permit and facilitate people living their best lives and maximizing their potential.

I suppose the word I'm trying to unpick is 'facilitate': is that by fair treatment of those already making it through the pipeline, so that the bad reputation is reduced, and more enter it, and so on; or is it by pushing more into the pipeline immediately?

> So if there are lots of girls who would feel the same way if society didn't bias them against the profession from an early age

I'm just not sure to what extent society has a duty to 'make people realise' that they'd enjoy a particular career path.