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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by commandlinefan on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:33PM (#21775423)
> There's this hypothesis that men statistically tend to pick jobs involving working with and treating patients as things, and women tend to pick jobs involving people and socializing.

Data to support this hypothesis here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge...

ObGyns are 85% female, Pediatrics 75%, while radiology is 72% male and anesthesiology 63%.

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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by Herodotus38 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:39PM (#21775480)
One caveat is that OB-GYN falls under much more of a surgical specialty so it doesn't really fit that hypothesis.
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