But why is that? Are you not willing to concede it’s fairly possible that society’s expectations might have something to do with that?
It is possible, yes. I never said it wasn’t possible.
Just that in my experience, the majority of women just aren’t interested in it. My Wife is a qualified electronics engineer with many years experience, but when she was doing that as her career she had no interest in engineering stuff outside of her job. She wouldn’t read articles on engineering or take any interest in it at all. Her knowledge and interest was firmly based around ‘work’, rather than a general interest.
My sister used to moan when she started driving that she didn’t ‘understand gears’. I tried to explain it to her several times and within about 30seconds she’d just tell me to forget it, she’s not actually interested and doesn’t really care how they work, so long as they do. Nothing to do with societies expectations; much more to do with her not caring about how it works.
Although, to be honest, my brother is the same. Not technically minded in the slightest, couldn’t care less about ‘technology’ or ‘engineering’ and can barely wire a plug.
He had a TV cabinet with some fancy levers in it that opened the DVD shelves up when you opened the front (bit like a pantograph arrangement). It went out of alignment as one of the kids leant on it while he was trying to open it. Took me about 2 mins to twiddle the adjusters back into position. He hadn’t thought to have a look and fix it himself, to see how it worked and see if there was anything he could do. Never crossed his mind that it might be something he could try to fix.
He had Sky Broadband as part of his Sky TV package. He’d had it 18 months before one of our mutual friends went round to set it up for him. No interest in ‘technology’ at all….
But, I guess that is as a direct result of society’s expectations upon him?? Erm, oh. Wait a minute…..maybe it’s because he’s a ginger…?