I'm not sure if that's a paradox. I think the goal of gender equality is not to have 50/50 men/women everywhere. It's to have no one that is blocked from doing

I'm not sure if that's a paradox. I think the goal of gender equality is not to have 50/50 men/women everywhere. It's to have no one that is blocked from doing something because of their gender, either by others or by themselves. This is usually referred as "equality of opportunities, not equality of outcomes". This is also hard to measure, and could be influenced by society. Some people say that this would naturally lead to having 50/50 men/women everywhere. I'm not sure that's true. If societal pressure disappears, biology will be one of the remaining influences. And since societal pressure will be gone, biology will play a stronger role in the overall distribution. But that's just my opinion/theory about this. I feel like a world where women are blocked from or forced into STEM to maintain a 50/50 parity would be not great, but again, maybe some people disagree for reasons I hadn't considered, or we disagree on fundamental points.