> That conflates two different things: what gender roles a society imposes on adults, and how the society socializes children. Those two things are not necessar

> That conflates two different things: what gender roles a society imposes on adults, and how the society socializes children. Those two things are not necessarily linked. Take India for example: it's not very egalitarian; women are still strongly encouraged to stay home with kids (and the work force is 70% men). On the other hand, half of STEM majors in India are women. How do you explain that result if you assume that preferences are biological? Presumably because they're not free to choose what they would prefer, and instead do what their family expects of them. Of course, we're getting back into your "women make a choice because they've been socialized to make it" territory here, which I find pretty convincing.