It's possible, but I've never seen any evidence and it seems obviously wrong. CEO is not the only position that requires ambition. How about surgeon, another pr

It's possible, but I've never seen any evidence and it seems obviously wrong. CEO is not the only position that requires ambition. How about surgeon, another profession that requires an immense amount of work over a very long time? But surgeons are 59% male, not 95%: https://wire.ama-assn.org/education/how-medical-specialties-vary-gender https://wire.ama-assn.org/education/how-medical-specialties-... Also, CEOs are not solely driven by ambition, it's one of the best-paying jobs in the world. If women were somehow less motivated by profit than men, I think economists would have noticed by now. So of course it's possible, but I don't think it's a good idea to push these theories without any evidence. It gives people an easy way out, so they can rest easy that there's no real societal issue, it's just unchanging biology out of anyone's control. But there are very real, very obvious societal problems that would close at least some of this gap, and they can't be ignored just because they're hard to fix. If there's some kind of ambition gap, of course we need to know, but don't spread that idea until there's a reason to. There's plenty of problems with mountains of evidence that need to be solved.