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OhhhJa posted...

It's not like men are systematically forcing women out of stem.

If you ignore the broader cultural trends that influence women's (and men's) career choices, sure (though pinning that entirely on men would be unreasonable, since men are only ~half of the society that provides those cultural trends). I saw a study done a while back where they assessed boys' and girls' performance on something stem-related and found that boys performed better in the control group, but when the experimental group was given lego to play with for a while before being tested, most (if not all) of the gender bias disappeared.

Really, the only difference is that it's a lot harder to pin down specific people or laws to point fingers at if we talk about the wage gap than if we talk about biased custody proceedings. In both cases, the idea that parenting/nurturing is women's work is the central motivator for the trend, it's just being practiced a lot more insidiously in the former case.