Why do you think something ought to be done about it?
Perhaps to remove “social pressure relating to gender roles” as a confounding factor, so that people can do a better job of finding roles that are good fits for their own individual characteristics?
Men and women are different on the biological level. They are different in multiple ways, but a particular one is that they have a different mix of hormones which affect the brain and so the mind. This gives rise to biologically (NOT socially) determined loci of attraction for certain behaviours and attitudes. Note that biology is not necessarily destiny, but ceteris paribus it’s easier for biological males to gravitate to some centers of attraction and for biological females to gravitate towards other centers of attraction. Sure, there are lots of exceptions, but that doesn’t change the picture of the averages.
Social pressure that steers some people to what they would prefer will steer others away. If people have basic goodwill, what you’d expect to see is the more typical people benefiting, while the more atypical would be harmed.
Perhaps to remove “social pressure relating to gender roles” as a confounding factor, so that people can do a better job of finding roles that are good fits for their own individual characteristics?
Where is the whole “social pressure” thing coming from?
But let me express myself better by changing one word in my original sentence: I think there are strong sex overtones here.
That makes me more confused about what you mean.
Men and women are different on the biological level. They are different in multiple ways, but a particular one is that they have a different mix of hormones which affect the brain and so the mind. This gives rise to biologically (NOT socially) determined loci of attraction for certain behaviours and attitudes. Note that biology is not necessarily destiny, but ceteris paribus it’s easier for biological males to gravitate to some centers of attraction and for biological females to gravitate towards other centers of attraction. Sure, there are lots of exceptions, but that doesn’t change the picture of the averages.
There does not seem to be an argument for why removing social pressures is not necessary here.
Social pressure can be good and bad.
Social pressure that steers some people to what they would prefer will steer others away. If people have basic goodwill, what you’d expect to see is the more typical people benefiting, while the more atypical would be harmed.