# Quote — Steve Stewart Williams, A Billion Years of Sex Differences

> It is true that women get fewer jobs in math-heavy STEM fields. But that’s only because fewer women apply for them. Those who do apply are generally more likely than men to be interviewed and more likely to get the job.

- Author: [Steve Stewart Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-stewart-williams.md)
- Book: [A Billion Years of Sex Differences](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-stewart-williams/a-billion-years-of-sex-differences.md)
- Page: 259
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Stewart-Williams#A_Billion_Years_of_Sex_Differences:_How_Evolution_Shaped_the_Minds_of_Men_and_Women_(2026)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-stewart-williams/a-billion-years-of-sex-differences/it-is-true

## More from this book

> In some frog species, females fake their own deaths to escape unwanted male attention; males, on the other hand, never fake theirs to escape female attention.

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-stewart-williams/a-billion-years-of-sex-differences/in-some-frog.md)

> We often view sexual victimization and partner abuse as women’s problems, rather than more-women-than-men problems. In doing so, however, we once again treat a statistical sex difference as a Mars-and-Venus difference. Ironically, the tendency to polarize sex differences in this domain is particularly common among gender-role progressives, who usually downplay female-male differences.

p. 249 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-stewart-williams/a-billion-years-of-sex-differences/we-often-view.md)

> I once spotted an article in The Daily Mail with the rather striking headline: “How did I raise such a girly girl? Feminist mother cringes at her three-year-old daughter’s love of princesses, frills and pink – and wishes she was into toy cars instead.” I remember thinking how strange it is that people who wish their daughters were less girly, and more like boys, are viewed as pro-female, rather than anti.

p. 253 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-stewart-williams/a-billion-years-of-sex-differences/i-once-spotted.md)