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I invited three women to be on the board of my corporation. All of them turned me down. All of the men I invited onto my board accepted.
As someone purporting to be a scientist I'm surprised you even contributed this anecdote to this discussion. So, what's the point you're trying to make - that women are offered opportunities but turn them down, and therefore there is no problem?
You can keep going back in history. How about those lowborn people during the dark ages? they must have been real dunces.
The advancement of people has been a long slow march that builds achievement upon achievement, with each achievement advancement can accelerate, but set-backs can and do happen.
Don't fool yourself into thinking you'd have anywhere near the mental ability you do today if it wasn't for all the work people did before you and the society you were raised in and given encouragement, opportunities and protections to pursue your goals. There are millions of techniques you use and benefit from that other people worked out before you. If you didn't have them, you'd be groveling in the dirt or likely gravely suffering or dead.
Women, it hasn't even been a hundred years since they've had the right to vote in the U.S. Religious and cultural attitudes have kept them oppressed and discouraged. Christian men(among others) have been encouraged to keep their wives in line with physical abuse and the women pressured to accept it.
As a society, we've figured out ways to encourage and protect things to let them advance and grow, things that wouldn't have gotten there without it and we know it. Let's call it systematic freedom. People have fought and died and worked their asses off for it. We do this. Let us(Society(men, women and institutions)) do this for women. protect, defend, encourage. We are all humans.
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No, but people would argue that mostly men are truck drivers due to rigid gender roles and strict gender policing of the patriarchy.
I'm sure someone would argue that it's the Illuminati. That doesn't make it a rational argument.
In our society gender roles are strictly enforced and policed. It has gotten better during the last few decades (though there have also been some regressions) but it’s still pretty bad.
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Why? Edit: I'm asking because @dnautics gave us an anecdote that doesn't add anything useful. Knowing why would be much more interesting, although still an anecdote.
Because board meetings are, by design, a contentious environment?