[7952]

I don't think the article is suggesting one gender should dominate.

It is possible that on average one or the other gender will be better at a particular craft. For historic reasons we don't necessarily know where those natural abilities fall. And obviously the average is not a good predictor of how well a particular individuals will do.

[drstewart]

Yet I don't think NPR would have written an article in the same tone about white men, for example

[jfengel]

They don't need to, because white men dominate most industries. There's little to be learned from examining any particular one of them.

If white men were to come to dominate a field previously dominated by some other group, that would be interesting. NPR could (and perhaps already did) write an article on how programming went from being female-dominated to male-dominated.