In schools and universities, girls tend to choose arts while boys like science. What are the reasons for this trend and do you think this tendency should be changed?

It has been observed that girls are much more inclined towards artistic and creative endeavours than boys who generally tend to be inclined towards scientific pursuits.

This

generalisation holds true for both genders as a whole but cannot be held true for each individual person.

For

example there

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example, there

are many male artists, and in

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such

as beauty

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nursing and teaching which are considered female dominated have male participation.

Similarly one

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Similarly, one

can find women engineers. Each person has its own interests and inclinations based on their abilities and background. How much the genders affect their choices is up for debate. Scientists with

background

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a background

backgrounds

in hard sciences like psychologists argue with

emperical

derived from experiment and observation rather than theory

empirical

data that biological sex has a huge role to play in determining people's

choices but

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choices, but

the sociologists suggest that gender is

an

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a

socially constructed phenomenon and roles and behaviours of males and females are enforced by the society which

compells

force somebody to do something

compels

boys and girls to

chose

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choose

differently. The answers may lie in how our biology evolved. It has been observed that females have taken the roles of

caregivers

. As

caregivers women

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caregivers, women

often pursue professions like nursing or teaching. Another reason may be physical strength, the professions that involve

lot

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lots

of physical

efforts

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effort

like coal mining are not

intresting

arousing or holding the attention

interesting

to most women as they are less competent in

this

area due to their biology. Men

on the other hand

have taken the roles of exploration and hunting to provide for their family.

This

led to scientific thinking and

indsutrialisation

the development of industry on an extensive scale

industrialisation

which explains

boys interest

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the boys' interest

boys' interest

boy's interest

in the

scietific

of or relating to the practice of science

scientific

domain. I think that individual freedom to

chose

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choose

and equality of opportunity should be given to both sexes and merit should be the sole factor for what profession one pursues.

This

trend is not alarming and in sync with biology

therefore

much will not be

acheived

to gain with effort

achieved

trying to reverse it.