Womens brains and mens brains are different, one has more grey matter one has more white matter, they have different amounts of different hormones. Tbem acting differently and making different choices isnt discrimination.

e.g.Qualities required in a successful business leader include confidence and risk taking, the hormone testosrerone is known to make people feel confident and take risks. As a result people with more testosterone may be more likely to become a CEO than people with less or none.

Of course biology is more complicated than just testosterone and there are other hormonal and mental differences at play, but the biology of males and females are different so finding different numbers of each in each profession should not come as a surprise.

There are less high paid male fashion designers than women, are men discriminated against in this field?




As for your women are in an equivalent position to african anericans in the 50s/60s analogy, in this time period segregation was commonplace and black people were expected to bow to the whim of white people e.g. give up your seat on the bus (Rosa Parks) in addition voting registrars had the power on their own to deny someone the right to vote based on the colour of their skin. In comparison, its often complained now that women are treated better than men in court, the aforementioned problems faced by black people are not faced by women now, unless you have some counter examples to bacl up what you said.
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I also agree with what Ele said about societal pressures, gender stereotypes can have a huge effect on a person but they dont necessarily - I also dont see any teachers or parents telling girls they cant become a CEO because of their gender (infact it seems like the kind of topic a news story would be made about if it happened).