Are lesbians more likely to be over-represented in STEM fields?

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Are lesbians more likely to be over-represented in STEM fields?

814GNV
Lesbians are over-represented in different branches of sports (such as football/soccer) but are they more likely to be over-represented in other traditionally male-dominated fields such as STEM?

I've recently come across a Facebook profile of a girl I met on vacation when I was a child. She became a mathematician/logician, moved out of Europe and started pursuing her career as a researcher/university professor in different countries/states across the Americas. That's a very high degree of achievement. I spent some time browsing through publicly available information on social media platforms and internet, and realized she is (very likely) a lesbian.

Could it be that at the top levels of intellectually demanding fields, there is a diproportionately high number of lesbians represented among the female professionals? The popular explanation is female achievers sacrifice their personal/family life for their career success. As they grow more successful, they have even less time to engage in romantic relationships and end up becoming single and/or childless. "Having a prestigious occupation makes no man good enough as a potential partner" is often cited in this context as well.

What if these types of women are actually men in disguise having masculine phenotypes that get expressed through their tactical spirits and stamina on the football fields or their problem-solving abilities and general thinking patterns when researching highly abstract concepts? A homosexual female in a male-dominated workplace never faces any kind of distracting sexual tension/thoughts either, and all she receives is a worship and support from her male coworkers, which have an accelerating effect on her career growth. Moving abroad or leaving for a better career oportunity serves a secondary purpose - to escape criticism from friends/family/relatives, and therefore fully maximize the potential of the same-sex sexual encounters, which further accelerates the professional growth.

The aforementioned woman has already managed to give birth to two children somehow but she never speaks about the "father" or "husband" (which even doesn't exist). She is actively involved in support groups related to high-achieving/busy mothers. When she deviates in the "family" direction in her posts, she talks about "a group of four and a dog" or uses some other vague formulations. She never publicly admits she is a lesbian or makes any indirect hints - she is keeping it low-key. There is a degree of "decency" appropriate to her status.

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R.C. Christian
Intelligent women tend to be on the Autism spectrum (Asperger's), and they are often asexual to the extent that they appear to be lesbian. It's because these people are usually instinctively disgusted by the sexuality of the average, degenerate people, so they rather close up completely than to try to act like they're one of them. She could still be lesbian, but it's not necessarily the reason why she comes off as such.
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814GNV
Not the embodiment of an aspie, quite the opposite, actually. She appears to be passionate about Salsa dance and group-oriented hobbies requiring a real-life social interaction. Neither does she appear to be autistic from the way she lectures. Aspies might excel at subjects they are obsessive enough about, but since their interests are often quite narrowed-down and their thinking patterns very rigid, the chances of them becoming successful in a conventional sense are lower than among gifted non-autistic individuals who were born and brought up in the right way. That's not to say many successful women in STEM fields cannot be on the spectrum, I just cannot imagine them performing a demanding job alongside an equally demanding interaction with other professionals, students, audience, etc.

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R.C. Christian
I see. Does she have a naturally masculine appearance, like large hands/feet, protruding Adam's apple, strong eyebrows, etc.?
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814GNV
I am not aware of that. It's oftentimes the athletes that exhibit pronounced masculine physical features but these, imho, don't neccesarily indicate homosexuality - manly-looking women with elevated serum testosterone levels are said to have an increased sexual drive or be more promiscuous, yet their heterosexual orientation stays intact. It's likely the pre-natal interaction between hormones that predisposes someone to have a same-sex orientation without making him/her physically resemble the gay/lesbian stereotype...initially. Lifestyle choices and activities then finalize a mental/physical transformation in some of the cases, hence the butch/whatever stereotype in women, but some other cases still remain true to their origin, feminine, beautiful, so no one can suspect anything. Women often lament about why is it so that gay males are generally more physically attractive than heterosexual males - it's the same principle, many gay men dedicate a lot of time to personal grooming, skin care, fashion, fitness, aesthetic surgeries, etc.
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Allen
The likely reason that gay males are often attractive is that attractive boys are more likely to be molested.

In athletic pursuits, high-testosterone lesbians are going to have an obvious advantage which may also carry over into having some nascent capacity for human thought. In the whorporate world probably most women are dead weight and given the job for having a vagina, so it is not really an issue most of the time.
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814GNV
Allen wrote
The likely reason that gay males are often attractive is that attractive boys are more likely to be molested.
Or they tend to send subtle signals that make them more prone to a specific kind of abuse compared to non-abused children or children that were abused in a common, heterosexual fashion, which is said to be a factor for the children's inclination (especially the female one, since they constitute the largest portion of victims) to promiscuity or - the opposite extreme - asexuality, later in life. I can imagine young girls subconsciously emulating slutty mannerism of their slutty mothers or degenerate adults they come in contact with, which makes them more vulnerable to becoming molested on top of already growing up in a risky environment per se.

Allen wrote
In athletic pursuits, high-testosterone lesbians are going to have an obvious advantage which may also carry over into having some nascent capacity for human thought. In the whorporate world probably most women are dead weight and given the job for having a vagina, so it is not really an issue most of the time.
Men will always outperform women in these fields but women driven by male-like qualities will outperform other women, and can even compete with lower-rank men as well.
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R.C. Christian
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It has quickly turned into an unreal character. Or maybe you live on a different planet.