Coming from Bulgaria, where despite all the horrible things Communism did, it had relative parity between men and women in professonal settings, even with its e

Coming from Bulgaria, where despite all the horrible things Communism did, it had relative parity between men and women in professonal settings, even with its extreme patriarchy. I suspect one reason for it was that market inefficiency - a lot more labour was required and both genders were expected to be employed. I went to free kindergarten and school throughout (no paid options available) and the only way to get into advanced schooling was high grades, not money, unless you count private lessons as an advantage. Lack of female engineers there was not as much of an issue. At the same time, because most kids were socially raised in communal kindergartens, loneliness and extreme introversion was less of an issue, since most acquired some social skills at an early age. I never thought women are expected to stay at home, until I learned about that in a US college.