Upthread Misstoff said: "There's equally evidence showing a strong correlation between the number of women in STEM subjects compared to barriers to entry. Making STEM accessible, in equal cultures, in fact bursaries to women just 'cause they're wimmin hasn't helped. It's almost as if we're wired differently and the average woman is less likely to succeed in STEM subjects.... We can all be judged on our merits. Sometimes those merits are typically male attributes held by men, less frequently by women and vice versa. I'm a headmistress. The skills required are more often demonstrated by women and that's why approx 3/4 of teachers are female. As a headmistress, I see that there is a difference between the genders and it isn't due to conditioning from birth, it's intrinsic."
I work in STEM (physicist). Two things strike me as glaringly absent from the account above. The first is that the proportions of men and women going into STEM are amazingly culturally variable. I had a friend from the Caribbean who was stunned when she came here to do a PhD in computing to find how few women did computing here - in her home country it was seen as a good solid career, a route out of poverty and was done equally by men and women. I recently read a post by someone who lives (IIRC) in UAE, saying that over there science was seen as a suitable career for a woman - nice safe labs to work in, thoughtful, quiet work to do.
The other thing is that the male scientists I know come in a variety of personality types - and a great many of them are as far from hyper-masculine as you can imagine. They're shy, retiring types. It's simply not true, even were one to buy into the idea that science requires a stereotypically male brain, that even male scientists fit this stereotype. I frequently chat to my female colleagues about this - our take is more that because of the barriers we've had to overcome to get where we are, we've had to be arsey, bolshy, in your face, pushy types. Quieter, more retiring types will have fallen by the wayside on the way up. Fallen by the wayside in a way shy and retiring men in our profession do not!
You don't need a penis to do physics. And the visualisation skills needed to think about dress design and the topology of general relativistic spacetimes are remarkably similar (I am very good at both.)
I have to admit that when a woman tells me she isn't a feminist I always want to know which bits she doesn't like? The vote? The right (in theory if not in practice) to equal pay? The ability to have a bank account or mortgage in her own name without a male guarantor? The right not to be raped in marriage? The right to go to university?
And remember, if you are an anti-feminist woman, while you blithely tell us all feminism is no longer needed, Trump's government is taking away women's reproductive rights in the richest country in the world, which has spent a couple of centuries plus telling us how it has the best constitution in the world, the one which guarantees its people's political freedom. Nearer to home, if you're British like me, you might want to reflect on the fact that abortion is still illegal in part of Britain. One day you may wake up in a society where you suddenly realise all those rights feminists won for you have been taken away from you while you sleepwalked through life muttering anodyne and meaningless phrases like "I'm an equalist".