Comment by cal5k

I’m very sceptical of this explanation. Sexism probably still plays a role, but not nearly as big a role as population-level average differences in personality/interests.

Some interesting papers: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761774171...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188691...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijop.12529