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>What is also not obvious is that they don't. Since men and women differ in pretty substantial ways, I think the burden of proof is on people who claim they're both interested in the same things equally.

How convenient that the burden of proof is on people who disagree with you!

I think this is a very odd position to take, given that men and women have far more commonalities than differences. (After all, they are both human.) It doesn't seem sensible to take it as the default position that men and women are going to be differentially interested in any given thing to a significant extent.

>no gender/demographic quotas.

I didn't say anything about quotas, and I don't think anyone in this entire discussion said anything about them either, so I'm not sure where you're getting that from.

>my entire point is that we should make it so each person can freely choose what they want,

Everyone agrees with this point. But women are not free to choose what they want when they are systematically excluded from some professions.