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but they just dont have the drive

Thank you for proving my point.

Your post expounds on that a little more but all of it is still rooted in societal perceptions of women. It's a very nurture vs. nature argument. Most people believed (and still do) that women make horrible mathematicians. This means teachers may sometimes be more willing to cut them slack in classes, along with the girls reminding themselves that perhaps they shouldn't try too hard anyway, I mean after all, women are just naturally bad at math, no point in even pursuing a career in anything math-related.

I work at a small software firm, there are 3 women to 7 men. I imagine the ratio 20-30 years ago would be about 0 women and 10 men. Society has become more progressive in telling women that they can do the job just as well as a man can. My own experience confirms this; there's no difference in the quality of the work between the women and men.

Anecdotal evidence, sure, but I'm sure all your beliefs are either based on the same, or confirmation bias.

Besides, if women are more conservative than men (which is what your post seems to boil down to), why are more women politically liberal? Joking aside, your post is pretty much all speculation. You've explained yourself a bit better and in a more intelligent way, but I still think you formulate these beliefs based on your ideal woman: the care-giver, the security blanket. I understand your post, I simply disagree, and think that discounting women as not even having the same capability and potential as men is a dangerous line of thinking.

I never heard that women were bad at math, ability at maths has always been something i've seen that happens rarely in individuals, male or female. It's the competitive fun most of the time. Programming as you know is not the usual fair of math, it's boolean phrases and algebras. Now we get in to nerds, bad haircut, usually spits a little bit when they talk and socially inept. Game and/or software programming tho is something that falls under drive - if you weren't experimenting with programming/game creation at a young age you probably wont ever get in to it. I know a ton of women who love software creation but the drive existed from a young age (ie; at 14 they were replacing the doom enemy sprites with sonic the hedgehog) and there's a chance that drive will carry them in to a career of it or get dropped to pursue other things. Always that 50/50 chance.

Female geneticists are really good at what they do because of their high proficiency with organizing complex matters. That by itself would mean that women are already prone to math. But again its the drive, if it wasn't there before, it wont be there in the future.

Ron White, is he the one who ends his stand up with 'Thanks for playin along."?

You're trying so hard to disregard anything I say because you either dont understand or feel like it should be dissected or argued. Like it or not, women are security blankets - why do you think it hurts so much when the relationship doesn't work out? Your security is gone, it works the same for them. Women eat ice cream and write in their journal about their heartbreak. Men drink and wonder aimlessly.