Assuming you're being genuine and not rhetorically trying to present a 'gotcha', I'll answer the question.

https://ilostat.ilo.org/these-occupations-are-dominated-by-women/ You'll notice women have the advantage of being able to choose professions which don't end their lives or break their bodies and minds prematurely.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/why-brilliant-girls-tend-favor-non-stem-careers

Here you'll see an article (with corresponding associated research) that goes into the extreme biases surrounding this discussion, especially with individuals pretending to 'know' or 'understand' the core of the issue without engaging in the realities that there is a fundamental difference between the sexes. This doesn't have anything to do with the individual and what the individual chooses to do, it has to do with the average and what the statistics say about that. Statistics cannot be applied to an individual and an individuals views and decisions cannot be applied to the statistics. (rather, should not since incompetent malcontents always will try)

The vast majority of 'evidence' that states that these issues in the choices women make are discriminatory or pay based are entirely corollary and not directly evidence based. (I.e. the subject matter is not directly evidenced, and only related data is used to infer a conclusion but not actually determine a conclusion based on clear evidence and research).

Females have the inherent ability to empathize and assist others and males inherently do not, on an average basis, not on an individual basis. (Men can be empathetic but not ALL men are able to be empathetic while most women can be empathetic not ALL women can be empathetic, as a direct example with evidence) https://www.acton.org/publications/transatlantic/2019/04/05/reason-women-dont-enter-stem-professions-revealed

Activists like to pretend it's discrimination and sexism that prevents women from pursuing careers in STEM but the reality is, what few women actually want to get into STEM are the ones who suffer the discrimination therein, and that impacts THAT SPECIFIC group of women, not ALL women.

Again, this is an issue that comes down to small group data being used as an example of 'why' for the whole group without actually being the reason why, simply a useful point of data which people can abuse for their own agendas. The same thing assholes do when they have a negative reaction with someone of a different race and then they say "all X people are like this".

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/ https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-global-educational-gender-equality-paradox-the-more-gender-equality-in-a-country-the-fewer-women-in-stem/

Research:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797617741719?journalCode=pssa

https://phys.org/news/2015-01-explanation-gender-gaps-academia.html

https://sci-hub.se/10.1037/a0017364

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222673203_Sex_Differences_in_Human_Neonatal_Social_Perception

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/

https://www.aaas.org/news/journals-and-funders-confront-implicit-bias-peer-review

https://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1240031/FULLTEXT01.pdf

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Gender_pay_gap_statistics

https://www.di.se/digital/bolag-grundade-av-kvinnor-far-1-procent-av-riskkapitalet/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02645505231221240

https://bmcnurs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12912-023-01267-z

https://www.telenor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-Gender-Gap-in-Technology-in-Scandinavia_Full-report.pdf

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09636625211002375?icid=int.sj-abstract.similar-articles.2

Articles:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/countries-with-less-gender-equity-have-more-women-in-stem-huh/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble-rouser/201607/what-explains-some-demographic-gaps-simpsons-paradox

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/gender-bias-in-science-or-biased-claims-gender-bias

https://www.aaas.org/news/journals-and-funders-confront-implicit-bias-peer-review

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/why-brilliant-girls-tend-favor-non-stem-careers

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-global-educational-gender-equality-paradox-the-more-gender-equality-in-a-country-the-fewer-women-in-stem/

Also, regarding "the patriarchy", anyone making that claim these days when the military industrial complex is almost entirely run by women are wholly disingenuous and should be completely barred from the discussion until they educate themselves on the reality around them.

Per example:

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/02/how-women-took-over-the-military-industrial-complex-1049860

https://inthesetimes.com/article/women-military-industrial-complex-gina-haspel-trump-feminism-lockheed-marti