>The gender equality paradox is like a religion to you people. Lumping everyone who mentions it together and othering them does not seem constructive. >Women a

>The gender equality paradox is like a religion to you people. Lumping everyone who mentions it together and othering them does not seem constructive. >Women aren't just "less interested" in sofware at the scale we see in that study, they're outnumbered by literally a whole order of magnitude. How can you be sure? Men are on average more interested in working with things, and women are on average more interested in working with people [1]. "...non-biology STEM majors showed lower [people-orientation] and higher [thing-orientation] interests than biology and health majors."[2] Self-efficacy and competence beliefs tend to be a factor that keep women away from tech [3]. The Gender Equality Paradox also mentions competency as a factor. 1. https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0017364 https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0017364 2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001879115001062?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00018... 3. https://portal.research.lu.se/portal/en/publications/will-i-fit-in-and-do-well-the-importance-of-social-belongingness-and-selfefficacy-for-explaining-gender-differences-in-interest-in-stem-and-heedmajors(2365274b-6054-49ac-a75b-12285c508204).html https://portal.research.lu.se/portal/en/publications/will-i-...