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    Commentary: There's nothing inherent about the fact that men outnumber women in the sciences

    by Marlene Zuk, Los Angeles Times Mar 16, 2018 4 minutes

    The saying "You can't fight City Hall" captures the immovable nature of government bureaucracy. A recent barrage of supposedly expert opinion would have you believe that when it comes to gender inequality, City Hall is nothing compared with our own biology: Women and men, it's said, are powerless against innate sex differences.

    A paper in the journal Psychological Science compared 67 countries and found a paradox: The more gender-equal the society, the fewer the number of women seeking careers in STEM fields - science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Instead, women in the most egalitarian parts of the world are gravitating toward the humanities, making use

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