professions

Associations of journalist, legal professions and IT professions are against it.

In any case, much of the distinction between masculine and feminine professions is traced back to Victorian times.

Even creating your own personal business is not easy —though some professions, like medicine, have it easier than others.

Work in your community to insure that police act civilly as well (or else find other professions).

As with all creative professions, in programming too you have to take matter in your own hands.

So its sort of refreshing to see this very human instinct being reflected in other fields/professions.

You can't equate professions that hold different amounts of power at different times.

Police officer doesn't even crack the top 10 most dangerous professions, and a large number of those police deaths are due to traffic accidents.

Not to mention only a certain subset of day-jobber professions can actually afford to produce quality art or music (instruments, equipment, and/or professional services).

I strongly recommend including some professions that may not be sexy or lucrative, but have the potential to make a difference.

People in other professions would too, but they usually just can't.

Sure we feel nice imagining there's accountability, but in some professions it's only an illusion.

A "theory" which fits the data -- on average, of course -- much, much better than yours would be "women choose professions with less money and less prestige".

He is a psychologist who has spent years not just studying persuasion in laboratory settings, but "going undercover", taking courses and even doing jobs in all kinds of persuasion professions - door-to-door salespeople, fund-raisers, recruiters, advertisers, etc.

You might think that singling out software is uninteresting from a statistical perspective, as in Scott Alexander's regression it was just a single (outlier) data point, but in fact, the software industry is larger than all "heavy math content" professions combined, and holds more power in today's society.

To the extent that there's a theory of gender in here, it boils down to "it doesn't take much of a social barrier to keep people out of a profession that sucks." [1] I'm not strongly convinced by this hypothesis, but your observation -- that there are other miserable professions that appeal more strongly to women than men -- does not invalidate it.