ATTN ALL WOMEN! When you have a baby girl, don't buy them Barbies, easy bake ovens, Disney Princess shit,etc..
Buy them Lego sets,chemistry sets,erector sets,arduinos,computers, take them to the library and science museums, do experiments with them, etc...
You're a bad parent if your daughter asks for a Barbie doll and you buy her a chemistry set. Should we also force boys to use easy bake ovens? Should we use gender-neutral pronouns so kids grow up with sexual identity issues?
You always here hear people talking about how to fix this issue but the problem is in the parents, you have to lay the foundation right from the beginning and plant the seed.
Another feminist talking point that is provably wrong. It's almost completely determined by genetics and hormones. This "social construct" idea comes from the same group of people who think beauty is a social construct instead of something that is purely objective. Even newborn babies show significant personality differences based on gender, and newborn babies will look at beautiful faces longer than ugly faces. These things are not social constructs. Men, on average, are more interested in machines and tools. Women, on average, are more interested in people. There isn't some global conspiracy that pushes women into nursing and teaching.
It's amazing how much people want to deny reality. I'm about 30 right now, and I'm seeing drastic personality changes in my friends. It's like someone flipped a switch. Suddenly they are moms. They act like moms. They think like moms. They talk like moms. I can either assume all of their husbands and boyfriends are beating the hell out of them to make them act this way, or I can make the simpler conclusion that some kind of hormone change is radically changing their behavior. We see the same effect in teens. A feminist/progressive/whatever would say teens act irrational and unstable because of some social conditioning. A medical doctor would facepalm at this idea and say it's obviously caused by hormones, something we've known for at least 100 years.
It would be wonderful if personality were as simple as social conditioning. I wouldn't need to take antidepressants to cancel out the mood instability caused by hormonal birth control. I would just learn to stop being depressed. Maybe fertility itself could be a social construct, and I could prevent pregnancy by talking about it and rubbing magic crystals on my forehead.
Women are rational people who make choices based off of their situation.
Exactly. This effect is called something like the "gender equality paradox." In countries where women have the most opportunity, women choose the easiest path. In countries that really suck, women work extremely hard. We just want an acceptable standard of living. If one can be happy making 30k per year, why not go into something you love doing, such as child care? In countries like the Soviet Union, women often took on highly technical positions like engineering and medicine. It wasn't really a choice. If you want that 30k lifestyle in the USSR, you need to be a doctor. Look at the extreme opposite of that - marrying an upper middle class guy and being a stay at home mom. If it's possible to get that 30k/year lifestyle while staying at home to care for children, why not do it?
We keep trying to fix something that isn't a real problem. Should anyone care when there is a lack of male nurses? If men don't want to be nurses, they shouldn't be nurses. The last thing we need is nurses who don't want to be there, engineers who don't want to be engineers, and lawyers who don't want to be lawyers.