It's disappointing because it takes away agency and becomes a form of control.
We know that by nature, men and women MUST have different interests on average, otherwise they wouldn't be interested in each other and our species would die :).
Can't we just accept that we make different choices sometimes and try as best as we can to make things progress to the best of our capabilities, regardless of how much each gender contributes to each human endeavour?
In third world countries, women reprensent 50% of the students in engineering classes ( for reasons that are easily understandable).
Actually, the bias observed applyies in countries where freedom of choice is given to everyone.
> claim is "sexism".
I disagree. The differences could be societal, cultural or biological. For example, I don't think it's contested that at least some women pick some career choices due to the want to have/raise children. People could argue indefinitely as to exactly how much influence each factor plays, but to call 'sexism' simply because there are gender differences seems incorrect.
That's how I understood it.
> If you suggest different reasons, you'd get in trouble if
> you worked at Google for example.
Unfortunately, it seems so. And this is the same most places I've experienced. In academia for example, you couldn't even pose the question in most places - there would be protests, your tenure would be under review, your funding would be cut - to name a few possibilities. If academics are nothing, they are overly cautious.
You have to ask yourself for example why the term "intellectual dark web" was coined [1]. They don't refer to them as 'wrong' or 'conspiracy theorists', they just pose different questions, and for that alone they were ostracized.
I refuse to live in a world where even posing the question is not possible. If Google won't dare hire me, I'll build my own theme park with blackjack and hookers [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Dark_Web
[2] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-going-to-build-my-own-them...