Shatkin believes the women who pursue typically masculine jobs, bravely bucking employment gender norms, likely have a strong personality fit and talent for the work, which would contribute to higher satisfaction levels.

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Much of the literature about gender in the workplace is designed to help women succeed in the masculine world of work.

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One reason why this might be is that pursuing intelligence goals in masculine fields, such as STEM conflicts with pursuing romantic goals associated with traditional romantic scripts and gender norms.

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The true fun in relationships begins, Liyana teaches, when we stop judging each other from the standards of our own gender, stop trying to convert the other into forms of ourselves, and instead appreciate feminine and masculine power as two different ways of relating to the world, equal in value, equal in wisdom, equal in importance.

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