Discrimination? - What A Sensible Response.

From: Andrew Gentles, Hollins Crescent, Harrogate.
THE article (Yorkshire Post, February 25), stating a “shocking” absence of women in business management and politics implies that they are being discriminated against just because there is not parity of numbers.
This is simplistic. There can be other reasons. Women are under represented in abattoir, sewage, refuse and construction work. No outcry here. They are under represented among musical composers, classical and popular, artists, poets (though not novelists), scientists and inventors. Why? Only a very few men achieve such eminence. By the same token men are under represented in nursing and primary school teaching, for example. I doubt women are keeping them out.
Happily, women are grossly under represented among the tyrants of the world. The fearful slaughter and misery of the 20th century result from the actions of men. All this suggests to me that there could be differences between the sexes, as much above as below the neck, and that these factors can affect the choice of occupation. Yorkshire Post.