Whatever it is that makes women less likely to participate in sites such as Less Wrong, I am completely oblivious to it. For whatever reason, a high percentage of boys would find Less Wrong boring, and so would an even higher percentage of girls. It is true that my everyday-life interests are more “feminine” than seems to be the LW average (writing fiction, composing music, singing in a choir, as opposed to hard-sciences math and physics, which I chose not to study in university partly for the reason that my teachers wanted me to because I’m a girl. And I refused to be told what to study based on the fact that “we need more women in X.” So I’m in nursing, a program that fulfills my requirement of immediately providing me with a well-paid job.
Whatever it is that makes women less likely to participate in sites such as Less Wrong, I am completely oblivious to it. For whatever reason, a high percentage of boys would find Less Wrong boring, and so would an even higher percentage of girls. It is true that my everyday-life interests are more “feminine” than seems to be the LW average (writing fiction, composing music, singing in a choir, as opposed to hard-sciences math and physics, which I chose not to study in university partly for the reason that my teachers wanted me to because I’m a girl. And I refused to be told what to study based on the fact that “we need more women in X.” So I’m in nursing, a program that fulfills my requirement of immediately providing me with a well-paid job.