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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by SolaceQuantum on Friday December 13, 2019 @09:14AM (#21781674)
Does this apply to other solitary activities, like writing prose (majority women), painting and drawing, poetry, creating clothes & other fashion?
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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by banads on Sunday December 15, 2019 @11:44AM (#21797088)
According to research[1], on average, men tend to be more utilitarian while women tend to be more expressive; so your examples seem to be in accordance with those differences. Social nature is quite nuanced, so any one particular variable cannot be used to totally explain everything.

[1]https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/taking-...

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