Brain size or not, women seem to be able to move into male-dominated areas, no problem, when social prejudice ebbs. But how does that translate into the ‘hard’ sciences? (Don’t you love the language?) Why aren’t women going into computer programming? Why aren’t women studying electrical engineering? Or bioengineering? Women aren’t building the platforms (hardware), or coding the software. Women aren’t in tech start-ups. Only 37% of tech start-ups had a woman on the board in 2020 (SVB Women in Technology Report). According to a 2019 EQUALS research report, overall, women make up between 17% and
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