My point is that societally we should allow anyone to enter any field they desire with minimal barriers halting their progress so long as they are able to do th

My point is that societally we should allow anyone to enter any field they desire with minimal barriers halting their progress so long as they are able to do the work - but we shouldn't try to force it just because we feel like there should be more women or more of whomever. Just because there is a disparity in the demographic make-up of a field doesn't automatically mean that's it's root cause is some negative bias or discrimination. Maybe more men fill administrative roles because more men pursue educations in business administration and leadership whereas a teacher can be an excellent educator, but a not so excellent administrator if they have no relevant experience. Does your wife have any experience in administration or any credentials that would show her to be qualified for the job? If not, maybe that's her issue - not sexism. That's like asking why do great software engineers sometimes never rise to staff/management positions - because they're good at writing software, not managing people and organizations. Is this bad? Why? Because administrative roles are generally better paid and more prestigious and more women should have that opportunity? Why not encourage more women to get into masonry or welding? Where's that movement? Has it maybe not happened because those aren't well-paying, desirable jobs for most people? Do more men occupy those industries because of the nature of the work or because of some insidious rampant sexism? I'd be inclined to say the former. If this were actually about equality, it would be happening all across the labor market and not just in a certain subset of high-paying fields. Some of these disparities can be traced back to social conditioning and discrimination, but its also in large part just due to inherit differences in the interest and abilities between genders. It's been proven time and time again that the genders are often fundamentally different in terms of abilities and innate interest. Neither gender is better than the other, but we are different and denying that does more harm than good.