there is something a little unsatisfying about this reframing of the life sciences as: Now with added empathising for extra feminine appeal! Is the supposed female drive to work with living things, or to engage with mental states, really likely to be satisfied by looking at cells under microscopes or de-sexing cats?
It's curious that biological sciences and medicine have seen far more women enter the field than in the past. Obviously I don't think it's because women 'like' biology because it's more cuddly - if I had to guess, it's because there's less stigma and fewer barriers for women entering that field as compared to (say) physics, even if biology requires just as much (if not more) attention to detail and intelligence.
God knows I couldn't hack it as a biologist or neuroscientist - I wasn't able to pay attention for long enough to carry out really complex experiments reliably.
