>>11168542>Is there any biological reason why there are more men studying engineering and more women choose careers like psychology? Does Evolutionary Psychology or neuroendocrinology explain this? Or is this the product of society expectations as feminist sayOkay. There is a lot going on here. Firstly sex differences between the sexes exist (on average, you can find men when are more agreeable than women but women are generally more agreeable) the Google memo was accurate and supported by evidence and you can find it online. The optics were bad. Don't go around calling women "neurotic" just because they score higher on average. People are individuals. But when you are thinking about demographics these things are of relevance.
Secondly, not all people who desire social justice are retarded and many understand that sex differences are real. Women have been kept from the work place until roughly the 1960s when there was the invention of birth control and increased writing and thought on women's rights and so forth. In this sense they are new to the work place and I think some encouragement is justified. Remember, women were kept from universities a hundred years ago.
Now, back to the sex differences. Women evolved to care for young and gather. Men to hunt and build. Men competed for status competence - you don't pull your weight taking down the mammoth then you're a coward. Women competed for status through socialising.
>"Brenda won't tell me where the good berries are.">"What a bitch."Due to our evolutionary past men like to seem smart and acquire resources as this is a pretty good marker of competence and women like psychology and caring professions because they acquire status through socialising and have evolved to care for young.
Again this division of labour was never exact but a general trend. There would have been excellent female hunters and excellence male careers but then like today they may have been subject to ridicule because people are idiots.
