My “men only” “women only” experiment

 

About ten days ago, I asked a “women only” question about STEM and despite my specific request that men stay out of it, more than 10% of the respondents were men.   Heh.

 

Yesterday I asked a “men only” question about a different subject, and I’d reckon less than 5% of the respondents were women–and in one case, a second woman reminded her to be polite. And in the other case, the woman PM’d me and apologized.

 

While this is a very, very limited sample, I think it illustrates the whole “pri...