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Comment by stagbeetle

To summarize the reasoning path:

1). "Results provide strong support for hormonal influences on interest in occupations characterized by working with Things versus People"[0]

2). "Boys and men prefer occupations related to objects (e.g., auto mechanic, chemist), whereas girls and women prefer occupations involving work with people (e.g., day care worker, art teacher).[0]"

3). "Our results suggest that typical women, who are exposed to low levels of prenatal androgen, participate less than do men in STEM careers partly because they are interested in working with people. This is consistent with evidence that women value communal goals, which are perceived to be at odds with STEM careers (Diekman et al., 2010) and that women who enter STEM careers often do so in people-oriented professions, such as medicine (Benbow et al., 2000)."[0]

It's the paper that is concluding women are biologically less inclined to engineering.

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166361/

parent stagbeetle 9 years ago

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