MIght even be more complicated. Mayhaps women, on average, are more capable than men in many areas, and therefore have a wider choice of careers/field of study to pursue successfully?! As such they are making a CHOICE and not being coerced either way. Equality is not 50-50 it is letting people choose to study/work/do that which they wish! Forcing people men or women into a field or career is not equity it is corporatism.