<i>&gt; Perhaps one of the reasons this aggregate category of &quot;women&quot; doesn&#x27;t want &quot;these jobs&quot; is because of an expectation of harassment or bias on the job. It&#x27;s kind of hard to want to progress anywhere that is openly or passively aggressive towards you.</i><p>Sure, perhaps. While we are throwing out guesses, perhaps it is because women consider other things in life more of a priority than achieving career power.<p>When asked to rate their life priorities, women tend to put a lower ratio of work related goals. Cultural influences teach men and women to prioritize different things in their life. That&#x27;s probably a bigger gender problem worth tackling.<p><i>&gt; I don&#x27;t think &quot;they just don&#x27;t want the jobs&quot; should be considered the end of the story or any sort of proof that sexism isn&#x27;t happening.</i><p>Definitely, which is why I said &quot;I&#x27;m not going to argue that this accounts for it entirely&quot;.<p><i>&gt; All this study says is that it doesn&#x27;t manifest in the particular, limited region surrounding compensation, which is by far not the sum total of the employment experience.</i><p>Also true for sure, but the original article posted by OP is about compensation, and I never suggested that the study covered the totality of workplace experiences.