&gt; We yearn to be with others like ourselves and to fit in.<p>The idea is that this is what &quot;keeps people out&quot;. Surely, the flip side is true, and people are defined &#x2F; made happy by the same notions.<p>People in the west are so far up Maslow&#x27;s hierarchy of needs, that we&#x27;ve stopped caring about the basics of life. Specifically, of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:MaslowsHierarchyOfNeeds.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs#...</a> we no longer choose a job that gives us food, shelter or safety (the first two), and instead we choose jobs based on how well it provides us with love&#x2F;belonging, esteem and self-actualisation. That is why young people choose jobs less and less with money as the sole or even primary determinant.<p>If this is the case, that people are choosing professions that help them feel self-actualised or belonging, no matter what tech does, or what Public Relations, Child-care workers or predominantly female dominated occupations do, is less important that the people it attracts &#x2F; already has attracted. And these same sorts of people will dominate, as this belonging and fitting in becomes increasingly entrenched, and snowballs on itself like runaway recurssion.<p>That seems, to me, the logical conclusion of slight biological gender differences combined with a rise up the pyramid of needs, which lessens the pressure of the former two to create cultures that trump biology.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tiJVJ5QRRUE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tiJVJ5QRRUE</a> is a documentary about Scandinavia&#x27;s attitude to gender relations, and the whole series is brilliant, and shows that gender separation is, if not inevitable, certainly understandable.