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Smart Women Don't Understand Human Nature

Smart Women Don’t Understand Human Nature

In Psychology Today, author Jenna Birch tackles the question Why Are so Many Smart Women Still Single? I’m going to comment on her answers.

After looking into the mating preferences of more than 5,000 men and women by way of survey, researcher and biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, Ph.D., writes that we are seeing a “Clooney Effect” in this country — a nod to the recent marriage of America’s…

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Women are notoriously underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM, for short). Now a new study suggests it's because women's interest in romance may be getting in the way.

Only about a quarter of STEM jobs in the U.S. are held by women, and women who major in STEM in college are far more likely to enter unrelated fields after graduation, compared with men. Lora Park, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Buffalo, wondered whether the old stereotype about how men don't find brainy girls attractive could be holding some women back.

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Gender scripts discourage women from appearing intelligent in masculine domains, like STEM, and in fact, studies show that women who deviate from traditional gender norms, such as succeeding in male-typed jobs, experience backlash for violating societal expectations. On the other hand, men in gender-incongruent occupations don't experience the same degree of backlash as women do.

Lora Park, lead author of a study that found that when women concentrate on romantic goals, whether due to environment or personal choice, they demonstrate less interest in science, technology, engineering, and math