> Last I checked women like making money too. Not as much as men. See a study [1] and Steven Pinker's slide [2], and many more studies. It's a well established

> Last I checked women like making money too. Not as much as men. See a study [1] and Steven Pinker's slide [2], and many more studies. It's a well established scientific consensus. > despite them operating on time scales that make this impossible. The author isn't claiming that men evolved within 100 years, but simply that men have in thousands of years evolved to have skills more suitable for programming by a small margin. When considering the 99%tile, this small difference becomes quite big. According to [3], you find 4-10 times more men in the top 1% bracket than women in certain skills. [1]: https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2011/SPP457/um/23632422/Hakim_2006.pdf https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2011/SPP457/um/23632422/Hakim... [2]: https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/images/pinker.slides/pages/pinker_Page_24.htm https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/images/pinker.slid... [3]: https://www.psychologytoday.com/files/attachments/56143/sex-differences-in-the-right-tail-cognitive-abilities.pdf https://www.psychologytoday.com/files/attachments/56143/sex-...