Not sure if this has been posted on HN before but I think this is a much more interesting article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/why

Not sure if this has been posted on HN before but I think this is a much more interesting article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/why-brilliant-girls-tend-favor-non-stem-careers https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/wh... tl;dr Girls tend to be more well rounded intellectually, with both strong math skills and strong verbal skills, giving them more options, possibly more lucrative options, beyond just STEM. Boys tend to be more lacking in verbal skills limiting their options. A closely related theory is that girls outperform boys in both sciences and humanities, in HS, but they outperform boys in humanities by a much larger margin, and therefore see themselves as strongest in those subjects.