I prefer lifting up explanations for gender segregation in society that provide a bit more explanation of the whole spectrum rather than one work category that

I prefer lifting up explanations for gender segregation in society that provide a bit more explanation of the whole spectrum rather than one work category that happen to sit at very average numbers. The equality paradox in particular is a large hint of a much stronger phenomenon than the pipeline problem. Group identity is my personal favorite. People self filter on every possible aspect in life, and work choice has gender segregation on a very large number of layers. The teacher profession has gender segregation at the initial start of the pipeline, during the training phase, during the first professional years, during the specialization phase, during the senior phase, and so on. They segregate on which schools they pick, country vs city, and so on. Sweden has public available statistics on work profession, and it is gathered as part of tax collection so it has very high accuracy. Guess which profession has highest gender segregation, and how high it is. There are no engineer jobs that sits at the 99%, or the 99.8% that is ratio of the single most gender segregated profession.