While other professions are making up ground, cybersecurity still lags behind in female representation, thanks to a lack of respect and inclusion.
While other professions are making up ground, cybersecurity still lags behind in female representation, thanks to a lack of respect and inclusion.
Lol, no social pressures?
We know that pink is considered a colour for girls. We know that historically it was a colour for boys. You can interpret that as no biological preference, only social.
My son still expressed that pink is for girls, not boys. We don’t assign gender roles or colours to a gender. It comes from media, friends, daycare, school etc. Social pressure is not just what you do. Sure, there are differences in interests between genders. There are also variations between kids.
You have a set of 2 and are immediately writing off their differences as gender based, based on biology. If you had 2 girls or 2 boys with varying interests, would it also be biology?
There is no normal interests for either gender. Just more or less common. And much of that is societal pressures, not biological. Do you think stone age women cared about high heel shoes?
My son likes pink, no one has told him that’s a girl color. It’s not 100% all the time girls will like x and boys will like y. I guarentee if you isolated girls and boys from the rest of society from birth, the boys will be wrestling each other and the girls will be doing more nurturing type activities. Are there exceptions, yes.
I completely agree. However, its a spectrum on both sides, not a binary is the point. It just skews more for each gender. They are not exceptions, they just fall differently on the spectrum.
Nurturing like teaching, chef and doctor? Those are all traditional male roles.
Lots of behavior is learned. Lots is instinctive. Puppy’s learn by play fighting. Cats learn by play hunting. Pupoys don’t instinctively pee lifting a leg. They learn it from other dogs, yet we see it as innate behaviour. How much is nurturing and wrestling innate vs learned? Its impossible to isolate from society, so we can only speculate and study the degree to which it applies, with broad accuracy.
As it happens my other son attends the same daycare and pink is his favoyrite colour.