It wasn't common knowledge to me, and I do care.
It is considered proper--even courteous--to supply citations when making a claim, and not to get in a snit when someone asks you for them in a nice way.
Thanks for the links, they make interesting reading.
Not fault alone, of course. In many ways, I blame liberals of both stripes- fiscal conservatism these days is strongly libertarian, and thus, liberal.
One said says I want to fuck who I want to and damned the consequences tomorrow, we'll just kill any inconvenient product of sexual abuse. The other side says I want to profit from who I want to and damn the regulations, I am not my brother's financial keeper.
Both are putting radical self interest- liberty ahead of the common good- and liberty is liberalism.
Inch by inch, the social justice warriors are getting closer to the truth that boys dominate these fields because of all of their informal experience. Why? Because boys tend to be more willing to go against peer pressure and do what interests them. Male nerds and geeks may resent peer pressure and bullying, but they'll stick to what they like. Never met a single boy who took the attitude that he couldn't pursue his hobbies because of peer pressure unless those hobbies were things you don't mention in polite society (and maybe even make the avante garde squeamish).
No, girls don't need "more pushing." It would be a problem if a family let the sons fire up an IDE, editor + interpreter, etc. and told the girls that that was forbidden for them. I can pretty much assure you, that in the vast majority of American households, even religious ones, that doesn't happen. What naturally happens is that the boys will say "this is cool" and try it out and the girl will make all sorts of excuses ranging from lack of interest, to what would her girlfriends think.
And no, boys by and large don't put pressure on girls to not share hobbies with them. I've never met a red-blooded male who thought a generally feminine female who shared most of his interests was a bad thing.
I don't think that your conclusions are entirely correct.
Boys accept being ostracized from the mainstream more readily than girls, and ostracized boys form their own culture. One of those cultures revolves around technology past the point of being a simple user of it. To a degree it's involuntary. There are girls in that culture too, but in my anecdotal experiences many of the girls are there more by choice than out of necessity.
The nature of manipulating technology lends itself to those that are accustomed to isolation and to spending very long periods of time working on something to the exclusion of other things. Those that find themselves alone already start out with a perverse advantage in that regard.
Guess I'm not a "usual" Swedish worker, then, because I don't get any O/T. But I do get 30 days paid vacation instead of 25, which suits me fine.
And that's what went wrong with slavery in the United States. Too much whip, not enough bread. And then 70 years later with capitalism, too much whip, not enough bread.
Today we have too much bread and perhaps not enough whip, but what is there left to do?
Yep. And I could just see Franklin D, old Curmudgeon that he was, shouting to the Bonus Army "Get off my lawn!"
The Roman Emperors had it right- buy a bunch of state owned bakeries, and give everybody their "Daily Bread" (referenced even in the Lord's Prayer, though Christ had us thanking God for it instead of the Emperor).
Keep the slaves fed, they won't revolt.
At first it wasn't. At first- the War on Poverty had exactly ONE purpose- get the Bonus Army off of Roosevelt's front lawn.
Everything about it since then has been to prevent the revolt that almost did happen.
A huge part of the reason that America has turned leftwards, is because the Republican party has chosen to prioritize fiscal conservationism over social conservationism. Family no longer comes first for most of the Republican leadership, as shown in their marital woes.
The Democrats were always going to go Left, at least the Republicans *could* have given us another choice.
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.