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Among other species exist all kinds of adaptations, for example birds can fly, and that's natural for THEM.

Just because elephant herds consist of females and juveniles, while bull elephants roam alone, that doesn't make it natural for us hominids.

The only time the sex ration goes well beyond 70/30 in great apes or monkeys it's because of some natural disaster.

A century or two ago, women were property, and kept out of a lot of social life. Like they are today in Saudi Arabia. That also does not make it natural.

While gender imbalance is often about economic discrimination, and especially has been in the past, I think today women have ample economic opportunities. So I don't perceive the lack of women in tech. as punitive to women.

I think it's punitive to the (overwhelmingly) men and women who are in it today. It's just a weird environment, and that weirdness in itself has no benefit.




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