There&#x27;s a &quot;gender problem&quot; in public relations as well as in mental health counseling professions. The vast majority of professionals in those fields are women. I&#x27;m not sure I understand why that &quot;problem&quot; isn&#x27;t warranting a New York Times story. In a great many PR and Marcom departments there&#x27;s a very real bias against men. So much ink is being used on the STEM and women issue but oddly such &quot;diversity&quot; isn&#x27;t quite important when the straight male is consistently marginalized in certain fields. How many straight male hairdressers do you know? How about makeup artists? Male kindergarten teachers? How about straight male fashion buyers or merchandisers or designers? How many men work at the cosmetics counter at Saks Fifth Avenue?<p>Is there any concept that men and women might actually be different and thus drawn to different interests? Obviously there&#x27;s crossover and not everyone fits the mold but should we be trying to shoehorn the video game introvert into public relations and the outgoing fashionable social butterfly into particle physics? I don&#x27;t doubt that there is a gender disparity in many professions, but my honest question is whether it&#x27;s actually a &#x27;problem.&#x27;<p>If girls (or boys) are being denied their passion because of discrimination, then yes, absolutely, but if we&#x27;re just sitting around complaining because more boys like computers and more girls like public relations, then it seems like a silly thing to worry about. More girls like to play with dolls and more boys like to play with sticks and pretend they&#x27;re laser guns. That&#x27;s a fact. If a girl wants to play with a laser gun stick (or a boy with dolkls,) then I&#x27;m all for it, but just achieving diversity just to please some statistian or some gender studies professor is to deny that biology does, in fact have an influence on behavior and choices. I know that in some feminist circles, that idea is blasphemous, but reality doesn&#x27;t really care about what some adjunct professor thinks.<p>Trying to &quot;feminize&quot; computers or make it less &quot;nerdy&quot; (i.e. Changing the Code Therefore I am shirt) is ridiculous and actually insulting. There are plenty of girls that like Star Wars, &quot;nerdy&quot; things and math and science. Just because that type of girl is a minority doesn&#x27;t mean there&#x27;s some kind of conspiracy.