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You’ll find a similar pattern in billion dollar start ups, engineering, hard sciences (e.g AI), tech (e.g software), large scale architecture, and aviation. Some fields have biases and some don’t, e.g chess has zero barrier to entry. It sits in the corner of your grandparents’ house, begging to be played; 98% of chess grandmasters are male. Conversely, there is a list of low barrier to entry fields women dominate;

• Education

• Nursing & Healthcare Support

• Psychology & Therapy

• Human Resources

• Public Relations & Communications

• Interior Design

• Social Work

• Publishing & Editorial Work

Perhaps or perhaps not off topic, it’d be interesting to use statistics to uncover why males are drawn to high risk, high competition and abstraction whereas women are drawn to relationships, communication and structured environments. Until then, it seems we’re focused on surface level matters.

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