"It is well known that men favor working with things and women favor working with other people." The problem is that you use the status quo as an argument for w

"It is well known that men favor working with things and women favor working with other people." The problem is that you use the status quo as an argument for why things cannot change. There have been a lot of things in history that were "well known" until they stopped being that way. I'm not ignoring the fact here that certain gender-specific evolutionary hardwiring exists. But that does not rule out that there could be ways to get more men to work closely with other people. Such as, as suggested by a commentator above, renaming professions. By the way, doctors work with people, and doctors are often male. It's likely more about status than the degree of work with people.