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Hi, no one is arguing that men and women are identical, but here is a ref to some research on the topic

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/slideshow/embed_code/key/3...

See slide 20 and 21 for the citation. Perhaps you feel this is the product of 'an insane ideology', personally I find it more convincing than the huge jumps in your argument and the original one, which jump from the assertion that men and women are different (I think most agree), to there are less women than men in IT, ergo there are far less women who enjoy or are capable of engineering.

In academic studies even tiny variations between genders are interesting, in real life not so much, the gap between genders would have to be very large to matter given the variation in individuals and experience levels.

In case you're not feeling convinced here is a graph which I find hard to square with a biological difference incapacitating women when near technology:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...

Early computing science had a lot of women; a woman helped land men on the moon, but the declined dranaticallly till recently over just a few decades. I find your argument that women just don't like tech for biological reasons unconvincing.



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