/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11675892
you know in some countries, women are forced to wear burkas, must submit to their husbands, have their genitals horrifically mutilated to control their sexuality, and in other nations they're free to take half of their husbands wealth after doing the bare minimum of wifely duties and aren't expected to do much in general, while being net tax burdens. are you getting the picture?

also OP, some of it is women being more interested in people vs things, some of it is women not having to work as hard in wealthier nations, but women also have a lower mean IQ of about 5 points as well as a narrower standard deviation, so simply looking at the different distributions you would predict a lower proportion given success in STEM has a minimum cut off of around 115 IQ, obviously increasing quite dramatically as you move up the ladder. same reason blacks, hispanics etc are under represented. if you are interested in a fully fleshed out paper on this, see Nyborg 2005.

>>11675487
good post. I would only say that society is ran by a SMALL proportion of elite men, which is actually what women demand - they want tall men who are better than them as husbands, they don't want to be number one themselves (except lesbians and other hardcore feminists, a small minority of women overall)

>>11667840
>males have a 28% higher number of neocortical glial cells and a 19% higher neocortical neuron number than females. The overall total number of neocortical neurons and glial cells was 49.3 billion in females and 65.2 billion in males

Just ignore things that upset your egalitarian world view, I suppose.