WHEN IT COMES to the huge and persistent gender gap in science and technology jobs, the finger of blame has pointed in many directions: sexist companies, boy-friendly science and math classes, differences in aptitude.

Women make up almost half of today's workforce, yet hold just a fraction of the jobs in certain high-earning, high-qualification fields. They constitute 20 percent of the nation's engineers, fewer than one-third of chemists, and only about a quarter of computer and math professionals.

Now two new studies by economists and social scientists have reached a perhaps startling conclusion: An important part of the explanation for the gender gap, they are finding, are the preferences of women themselves. When it comes to certain math- and science-related jobs, substantial numbers of women - highly qualified for the work - stay out of those careers because they would simply rather do something else.

These "experts" are surprised to find that women are not political robots, but actually carry personal preferences. Oh, what are we going to do with all our neat theories of how women are underrepresented in science jobs because of discrimination and social inequality? Here, I have a suggestion: trash them. The truth is that a lot of these gender differences are rooted in genetic differences and we have a tons of studies that support this, two of them presented here and here.

Equality isn't just failure within the educational system; it's failure in any system where we apply it, because it doesn't correspond to reality. Corrupt is here to point out the cognitive dissonance created by beliefs that's not realistic, and point people to a path out of that psychological disorder. Welcome to reality - and happiness!