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I am Bulgarian.

The "push for gender equality" under communism is largely misunderstood, and purposefully so, in the West.

As an example the entrance exams for primary school teachers were more competitive than the exams for any of the hard sciences or any type of engineering.

My mother failed her teaching exam, yet was accepted into the Naval Academy, a cross between MIT and West Point.

Those women who would have had the prestige of being teachers, the relatively high salaries, the early retirement and a whole host of other benefits lost them during the transition to the point that today being a teacher is one of the worst possible jobs. So now they are moving to tech, their second or third choices under Communism.

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Thank you for commenting, I have not lived in a way to understand the tradeoffs. I do not mean to miss understand. Where I am from I worked with many women in tech, who all graduated from technical universities. I do not know. I hear a lot about how in the west women are dissuaded from tech. I do not know.