[jean_claude]

Or perhaps many children are raised to conform to particular gender roles that affects their social development, and possibly, just possibly, this might also affect their job opportunities not just by self-selection, but by biases in the interviewer/hiring manager. It seems like a very complicated issue that doesn't have a simplistic answer.

[Moshe_Silnorin]

Gender roles exist because they are adaptive. They are inseparable from actual average differences in characteristics.