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How myths about the ‘female’ brain hold women back from pursing careers in science The choosiness myth Yet the myth keeps popping up, like whac-a-mole, in the form of a “female choosiness” argument. This was characterized bythe notorious Google memoin which Google engineer James Damore asserted that the biologically determined preferences of women meant that a gender-equal distribution in technology was unlikely. Women, he argued, prefer “people” to “things.” But scientistshave challenged this idea....

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