Liberated preference

When the genders have equality of opportunity, as in Sweden, what do they choose to do?  Here's the last point from that article:

"Sweden has gone farther than any nation on earth to integrate the sexes and to offer women the same opportunities and freedoms as men. For decades, these descendants of the Vikings have been trying to show the world that the right mix of enlightened policy, consciousness raising, and non-sexist child rearing would close the gender divide once and for all. Yet the divide persists.

"A 2012 press release from Statistics Sweden bears the title “Gender Equality in Sweden Treading Water” and notes:

• The total income from employment for all ages is lower for women than for men.
• One in three employed women and one in ten employed men work part-time.
• Women’s working time is influenced by the number and age of their children, but men’s working time is not affected by these factors.
• Of all employees, only 13 percent of the women and 12 percent of the men have occupations with an even distribution of the sexes.

"Confronted with such facts, some Swedish activists and legislators are demanding more extreme and far-reaching measures, such as replacing male and female pronouns with a neutral alternative and monitoring children more closely to correct them when they gravitate toward gendered play. When it came to light last year that mothers, far more than fathers, chose to stay home from work to care for their sick toddlers, Ulf Kristersson, minister of social security, quickly commissioned a study to determine the causes of and possible cures for this disturbing state of affairs.

"I have another suggestion for Kristersson and his compatriots: acknowledge the results of your own 40-year experiment. The sexes are not interchangeable. When Catherine Hakim, a sociologist at the London School of Economics, studied the preferences of women and men in Western Europe, her results matched those of the aforementioned Pew study. Women, far more than men, give priority to domestic life. The Swedes should consider the possibility that the current division of labor is not an artifact of sexism, but the triumph of liberated preference."