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Except we've heard this exact excuse -- "women just aren't interested in X, men are" -- before, and it's turned out to be wrong. Plenty of other fields people j
by ubernostrum 10y ago
Except we've heard this exact excuse -- "women just aren't interested in X, men are" -- before, and it's turned out to be wrong. Plenty of other fields people just said "oh, women don't like that/aren't interested"... until concerted effort to break down biases and barriers, and then suddenly "oh, guess they do like and are interested, we'd just been keeping them out all this time".
So any "in a highly convenient coincidence, human sexual dimorphism just happens to prevent women being interested in/good at my field of endeavor" argument should at this point probably carry a presumption of incorrectness (and of same for anyone advancing said argument, if not presumption of outright bias/discrimination) until overwhelming evidence is provided in support.