<story><title>As women have more equal opportunity, the more their preferences differ from men</title><url>http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6412/eaas9899</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kace91</author><text>I wonder how it adjusts for culturally pushed gender differences. Women could have the same opportunities as men but be expected to have different tastes, be subjected to different experiences growing up, etc. which could affect their choices in latter life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m fairly visual-spatial. I now make little websites and take photos and play SimCity. But when I was a homemaker, this largely got expressed as an interest in clothes and household decor because those were basically the avenues open to me. It wasn&amp;#x27;t particularly fulfilling.&lt;p&gt;I thought dressing well and being pretty would get me a happy marriage. It didn&amp;#x27;t. I thought having a nice home would get me a satisfactory social life. It didn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;I liked being a mom and I liked being home with my kids, but a lot of the rest of it wasn&amp;#x27;t really what I expected or wanted.&lt;p&gt;I spent a lot of years pursuing some mirage where I thought X would get me Y and being disappointed. I also spent those years sorting out why my life didn&amp;#x27;t work and resolving a lot of issues.&lt;p&gt;There are ways in which I&amp;#x27;m very stereotypically feminine and have a history of reading to others as very feminine. But I actually don&amp;#x27;t enjoy cooking, never learned to sew or crochet or similar, etc.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve worked hard at sorting this for myself so my life can stop making me crazy. It tends to be a lot of drama when I try to comment on it. No matter how carefully I say &amp;quot;X research resonated with me personally and was useful for me personally in making my life work better,&amp;quot; inevitably other people will jump up and say (in essence) &amp;quot;Well, that isn&amp;#x27;t true &lt;i&gt;for me&lt;/i&gt; and you are evil and bad and wrong for saying this is true for women generally and you don&amp;#x27;t represent me!!!!!&amp;quot; type nonsense.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s insane amounts of drama that is essentially unrelated to whatever I actually said and it makes it nigh impossible to have any kind of meaningful discussion.&lt;p&gt;I think some of what I&amp;#x27;ve learned over the years does generalize. But I am increasingly reluctant to try to say anything about such because that&amp;#x27;s even more drama than saying &amp;quot;X made sense for me as an individual trying to sort my own life.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Based on those experiences, the odds seem long against there ever being research that really seriously sorts this for &amp;quot;the world.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>As women have more equal opportunity, the more their preferences differ from men</title><url>http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6412/eaas9899</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kace91</author><text>I wonder how it adjusts for culturally pushed gender differences. Women could have the same opportunities as men but be expected to have different tastes, be subjected to different experiences growing up, etc. which could affect their choices in latter life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jezze</author><text>Yeah this is the part I don&amp;#x27;t see the clear logic in. I mean how much of a persons preferences are biological vs taught&amp;#x2F;environmental behaviour. I would accept the results straight up if it&amp;#x27;s all because of biological reasons but to me it&amp;#x27;s not that clear. Imagine if we brought up women to be amazon warriors, of course they would have different preferences compared to women today no? You often pick a career after what you are good at already.</text></comment>