The members of Congress and women’s groups who have pushed for science to be “Title Nined” say there is evidence that women face discrimination in certain sciences, but the quality of that evidence is disputed. Critics say there is far better research showing that on average, women’s interest in some fields isn’t the same as men’s.

Ms. Pinker, a clinical psychologist and columnist for The Globe and Mail in Canada (and sister of Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychologist), argues that the campaign for gender parity infantilizes women by assuming they don’t know what they want. She interviewed women who abandoned successful careers in science and engineering to work in fields like architecture, law and education — and not because they had faced discrimination in science.

We're too focused on gender equality that we forget the simple fact that men and women are biologically different, and that these gender differences will be naturally expressed in their preferences. Forcing women to adopt male-oriented work fields and vice versa, only leads to oppression, which is ironic, since it's oppression that egalitarianists claim to be fighting against. Maybe we need to accept our nature and move on with life, instead of trying to fit reality inside a moral fantasy world?

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