The gender gap is a hot topic and many keyboard warriors would like you to believe that all differences between men and women are due to oppression, not behavior or preference. While sexism is still alive and well, studies show that increases in wealth and equality WIDEN the differences in choices between men and women, not bring them closer. Here’s an excerpt from Scientific American on this topic:

Those hypotheses address how national wealth and equality affect the choices men and women make. One of them, which the authors dub the “social role hypothesis,” predicts wealth and gender equality will lead to more similarities in preferences between genders. With equality and readily available resources, the idea goes, women and men will become more alike in their ways.
The “resource hypothesis,” in contrast, holds that abundance and equality will give men and women more freedom to express gender-related preferences, unconstrained by hardships that might force them to do otherwise. In this scenario a woman who worked in male-dominated field 50 years ago might have felt pressured to behave as “one of the boys.” But with a more equal gender representation in the workplace, perhaps such constraints would fade, leaving her freer to express more gendered preferences if she wishes.

Read the full write-up here by Scientific American.

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