And I would argue that the teaching thing was because education was considered a “man’s role” now there is no stereotype and women flock more to that profession. I used to play with cabbage patch dolls as a kid, my sister grew up and switched to barbie and my little pony. I had no interest. It wasn’t because a show told me I shouldn’t like it it’s because I had zero interest. It’s almost like you’re making the argument that homosexuality is learned behavior and not ingrained biology… no, if you are gay you are gay and you know it. It’s not because someone “groomed” you to be gay. Programming used to be a secretarial job, so yes the gender norms of the time would have leaned more heavily towards women. It’s not necessarily because they wanted to code (it looked wayyy different back then). Now there are wonderful women coders, welders, plumbers, you name it. That’s just not the biological norm. My wife hates math, hates that kind of stuff. but she has her masters in education because she loves nurturing and teaching. Are there guys like her, sure. I love teaching too. it’s just not my passion.

I’m not saying career interests are biology driven, but that life interests are. Take the difference between male and female brains for example. Females have more empathy then males. Males have more of an ability to tune everything else out but a single thing while females cannot. Which if you believe in the hunter / gatherer theory makes sense. Males were out hunting and being hyper focused on the kill while the females were protecting the young and needed to pay attention to everything all at once.

Men and Women should 100% be equal, but they certainly are not the same, interests or otherwise.