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> Is there any evidence of this systematic underfeeding?

I provided evidence that our cultural ideas of what careers are and aren't masculine impacts women's interests in terms of career path. You provided no evidence that interests are a product of sexed brain chemistry. Your height analogy makes no sense and doesn't match up to our discussion.

> There just is no evidence that we are not educating girls fairly in science or any other domain.

I never argued that schools discriminate against women by offering them a worse education in those areas. I argued that our culture encourages certain interests above others in boys and girls by gendering those interests. Consider the example I linked, where the number of women pursuing careers in computer science fell precipitously after messing with computers became coded as a "boy hobby."

> You ignore giant influences like the education system which does a better job educating young girls in science and math than boys.

Girls get higher marks than boys in every subject, and the discrepancy is actually less pronounced in STEM fields [1]. But this is really irrelevant to our discussion.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/girls-get-better-...




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