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Can you really say that (human) medicine, dentistry, law, accountancy and bioscience are all becoming irrelevant? Are the only relevant fields engineering and software?*
Well, firstly, if a field becoming irrelevant leads to men leaving, then it does not automatically follow that the reverse is also true, so just by men leaving we cannot deduce that the field is becoming irrelevant. But if we take human medicine, then for example it seems that women like to treat children, and I would think that is the one demographic that is generally the healthiest and least in need of treatment. It also seems that there is talk about how these female majority specializations do not get paid as much as the male majority ones, which could indicate that there is not as much demand, which would support the idea that they are less relevant.
My point was that I do not think it is realistic that men leave a well paying field just because they feel a little bit uncomfortable when the field becomes majority female, because men seem happy to do many kinds of hugely uncomfortable jobs if the pay is good enough. It is more likely that there is a more fundamental cause behind the cases where a field slowly gets more female and then suddenly all the men leave, so a 50% share of women does not automatically lead to a 100% share of women, there must be some more fundamental reason that is driving all the men out.
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