If the "quiet part" beneath that "loud part" is that girls are being encouraged and boys discouraged because STEM is "boy stuff" and girls need to be pushed int

If the "quiet part" beneath that "loud part" is that girls are being encouraged and boys discouraged because STEM is "boy stuff" and girls need to be pushed into it, kids will pick up on that. And it only takes a tiny bit of a "boy's club" atmosphere before things start getting hostile to the women present, and that quickly snowballs.