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Fewer women go into STEM because women have more and better options in life. STEM is hard and it sucks. Same reason women don’t have to mine coal. They have t
by throwaway0255 9y ago
Fewer women go into STEM because women have more and better options in life.
STEM is hard and it sucks.
Same reason women don’t have to mine coal. They have the luxury of being able to choose not to.
Men don’t have that luxury. We either earn or we live under a bridge eating food out of cans. Society puts an enormous pressure on men with the threat of homelessness and isolation, which doesn’t exist to anywhere near the same degree for women, because women have inherent value.
Men have no inherent value to society, their only value to society is realized through their work.
The result is men work harder and endure harder shittier jobs, including STEM.
If you want more women in STEM, then just eliminate all of their societal privileges, consider them inherently valueless like men, and put them under the same level of threat men are under of being isolated and going homeless.
- denverkarma 9y agoBrutally worded but I get what you're saying. Our collective ability to not care about mens issues really amazes me.
- icebraining 9y agoWomen disliking STEM doesn't explain stuff like this: In a randomized double-blind study (n = 127), science faculty from research-intensive universities rated the application materials of a student—who was randomly assigned either a male or female name—for a laboratory manager position. Faculty participants rated the male applicant as significantly more competent and hireable than the (identical) female applicant. http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.full http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.full
- DrScump 9y agoAcademia not not necessarily represent STEM as a whole.
- tomp 9y agocherry-picking studies is easy https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/14/study-finds-surprisingly-that-women-are-favored-for-jobs-in-stem/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/1... > And according to their latest study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, women are no longer at a disadvantage when applying for tenure-track positions in university science departments. In fact, the bias has now flipped: Female candidates are now twice as likely to be chosen as equally qualified men.