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Exactly. No one's worried that we have too few female coal miners or garbage collectors. These are physically demanding, not prestigious and often low-paying jo

Exactly. No one's worried that we have too few female coal miners or garbage collectors. These are physically demanding, not prestigious and often low-paying jobs. Hell, no one's worried that we have too few female oil rig workers and these ARE (in my understanding) high paying jobs. But STEM? That's somehow different.

DanBC 9y ago
> Exactly. No one's worried that we have too few female coal miners > Hell, no one's worried that we have too few female oil rig workers There are programmes to increase the numbers of women in both those industries. There's news media coverage of it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellevate/2016/12/07/the-energy-gender-gap-still-a-long-road-ahead/#46a3ec282cad https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellevate/2016/12/07/the-energy-... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-business/11620315/Building-and-construction-industry-must-nail-the-gender-imbalance.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-business/11620315/Bu... There's research on it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4279861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4279861/