People may also have different presentations or manifestations of the same types of talents, which may be more easily recognized or acknowledged in some cultural contexts than in others.
I think that this is it, actually.
DD has noted that the ONE constant in her research observations of human subjects in pairs programming is that the male paired subjects tend to be OVER-confident, and the female ones
UNDER confident. If anything, their data suggests that the female teams are less error-prone and work
faster when they work as a cohesive team.
She finds this fascinating, btw. She's observed it anecdotally, too-- that her friends (mostly male) who are all STEM geeks, and most of them guys, tend to view her more self-effacing approach as a
lack of ability rather than a lack of brashness/bravado-- all other things being equal, I mean, and her class rank/transcripts certainly show that if anything, she's MORE than equal. KWIM?
She has speculated to me that one explanation for the paucity of female professionals in some fields (engineering and CS in particular) may be the result of
business managers that reward particular
personality characteristics, rather than true "talent."
