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> That is weak evidence in favour of there being innate gender differences. But my example showed that this isn't an innate gender difference. The effect disap
by bildung 6y ago
> That is weak evidence in favour of there being innate gender differences.
But my example showed that this isn't an innate gender difference. The effect disappeared after the kids grew up in another system.
> As far as I can tell I owe my employment path to the fact that, as a gender, girls appear to be refusing to compete for it.
It was the same for actual professions: The female share of engineers was significantly higher in Eastern Germany than in Western Germany, and is no sinking since the reunification: https://www.industrial-production.de/wirtschaft---unternehmen/vdma-ost-hoehere-ingenieurquote-und-mehr-frauen-im-ostdeutschen-maschinenbau.htm https://www.industrial-production.de/wirtschaft---unternehme... (German source, sorry)
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