Most probably your child's elementary school teachers had a much bigger influence than you. They have the most time with your child and the stats for STEM are

Most probably your child's elementary school teachers had a much bigger influence than you. They have the most time with your child and the stats for STEM are pretty bad in their ranks. If we spent as much time worrying about the gender / STEM imbalance in elementary and pre-school as we do in technology, we would fix the imbalance in technology within a generation. If a thing is not the person whom your child looks up to's thing, then it will not be your child's thing.