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While the article focuses on philosophy, it has data that show sexism doesn't explain differences in women's representation between fields.

% women among incoming freshmen declaring intention to major in X perfectly predicts % women among PhD recipients in X 10 years later!

This is inconsistent with the idea that women are underrepresented in male-dominated fields because they have more sexism.

But consistent with the hypothesis that women have different preferences, which is independently well-supported by the evidence.

The data are from the Freshman Survey, which is taken by about 300,000 incoming college freshmen every year.

The problem is that evo-psychos consider EVERYTHING to be the result of innate brains differences & constantly hand-wave away cultural.

Using biology alone to explain the differences in professional and life choices between sexes is very shallow.

Biology definitely plays a role and there is no doubt men and women are different

but there are an overwhelming number of social and environmental variables that influence these choices.

Yes and Pinker & evo-psychos routinely discount other variables and point to speculation-based theories about female brains.

LOL - look at all the evo-psychos trying to defend male hegemony as usual.

FWIW @sapinker book The Better Angels of our Nature SP lauds 'feminization" as a crucial driver of declining global violence multiple times

Better Angels is completely idiotic. Pinker has no viable theories on less-than-evolutionary culture changes because of his devotion to EP.