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by aleeds 2781 days ago
Consider that "women dealing with horrible misogynistic neckbeards" and "women that get no special treatment" are in fact, compatible.

For women every day, those negative experiences are the difference from men that keep them from being in the industry.

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> For women every day, those negative experiences are the difference from men that keep them from being in the industry.

That's conjecture that isn't supported by any evidence. And in fact, there's considerable evidence that women don't choose STEM for far more fundamental reasons.

The very existence of the gender equality paradox, and the fact that women have achieved gender parity in fields they actually care about but which were arguably even more sexist, like medicine and law, and did it without people fawning over whether they are having "negative experiences", completely undermines your narrative.