I've had more than a couple of 40-something women intimate to me their late-life anger at the realization that they felt goaded by women's activism into professional lives they would not have chosen for themselves if they had been left to really listen to their own hearts. What they really had always wanted was to be a stay at home mom, but the sheer volume of women's activism around them made them feel they could not take that option without somehow being poorly seen. The old pigeon holes had simply been replaced by new ones, this time imposed on them by activist women and their new brand of social engineering.

As you say, pretending there are no differences is Pc cow poo. How many girls just naturally turn to thoughts of programming as their ideal life? Some, for sure, and that's all fine and well, but apparently "not enough". Not enough for whom? Not enough as would suit the social engineers. Why? Because, as you point out, there are diffrences that should not be ignored. Boys and girls are made differently. This isn't an old wive's tale - educators, psycholgists, scientists agree, gils and boys are wired differently and so are bound, if left to explore their true natural selves, to have different interests in life. But rather than accept that, the new social engineers get out there and organize girl-re-education programs, raising topics, to convince another generation of girls that they have to fit their new stereotype - "and it only hurts those it pretends to help".