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Is anyone aware of how many female engineers come out of Iran? This has everything to do with education quality. Our math education is an absolute joke in the U

Is anyone aware of how many female engineers come out of Iran? This has everything to do with education quality. Our math education is an absolute joke in the US, even mine and I went to a supposedly amazing public school. Add in cultural biases such as parents and teachers pushing bright girls to "girly" fields instead of math and you end up like this. Then in typical American fashion we try to impose quotas or other bandages at the endpoint rather than fixing the system itself.

arkitaip 9y ago
I dislike the blog post for being poorly written but one of the author's points is that it's too late to attack diversity during recruiting because your pool of women applicants will already be tiny due to attrition. She is advocating approaching women in college but at you point out, even that's way too late. You can't have a society that instills shitty values into people from their first breath and then expect to undo all those years of mindfuckery because you work at a progressive place and are really passionate about diversity.
deorder 9y ago
The following documentary covered it and according to them it is not because bright girls are pushed to "girly" fields: https://youtu.be/E577jhf25t4 https://youtu.be/E577jhf25t4 Also watch the other episodes at: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd9_g7lAICxtlGbxh4_z8ik178o8CDPnv http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd9_g7lAICxtlGbxh4_z8i... https://youtu.be/Ve6uK00AvNo https://youtu.be/Ve6uK00AvNo It also covers why women in for example India and the Middle-East are more into computer science. You can read more about the series at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask
flukus 9y ago
> Is anyone aware of how many female engineers come out of Iran? Because it's a poor country. As wealth increases and women start taking careers they want to instead of careers that pay well they amount of women going into IT drops.

arkitaip 9y ago

I dislike the blog post for being poorly written but one of the author's points is that it's too late to attack diversity during recruiting because your pool of women applicants will already be tiny due to attrition. She is advocating approaching women in college but at you point out, even that's way too late. You can't have a society that instills shitty values into people from their first breath and then expect to undo all those years of mindfuckery because you work at a progressive place and are really passionate about diversity.

deorder 9y ago

The following documentary covered it and according to them it is not because bright girls are pushed to "girly" fields: https://youtu.be/E577jhf25t4 https://youtu.be/E577jhf25t4 Also watch the other episodes at: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd9_g7lAICxtlGbxh4_z8ik178o8CDPnv http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd9_g7lAICxtlGbxh4_z8i... https://youtu.be/Ve6uK00AvNo https://youtu.be/Ve6uK00AvNo It also covers why women in for example India and the Middle-East are more into computer science. You can read more about the series at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask

flukus 9y ago

> Is anyone aware of how many female engineers come out of Iran? Because it's a poor country. As wealth increases and women start taking careers they want to instead of careers that pay well they amount of women going into IT drops.