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I attended the opening ceremony of the international physics Olympics, and it was interesting to see the gender distribution of the teams. Most western countrie
by andi999 6y ago
I attended the opening ceremony of the international physics Olympics, and it was interesting to see the gender distribution of the teams. Most western countries had 0-1 female in a team of 5. Countries traditionally perceived as less gender equal had more. I remember Kuwait having an all girls team.
- mjh2539 6y agoSomeone did a study on this recently. Women in the developing world are much more likely to study STEM than in the developed world. There was speculation as to why.
- Latour 6y agoI'm pretty sure the consensus is that in the developing world, STEM education is considered a more viable path to financial independence [1]. 1: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
- analog31 6y agoAnecdote: The two women whom I'm closest to (my spouse and my mom) both went into science because they were encouraged to do so by the nuns at the Catholic high schools that they attended. One possible explanation is that the social expectation of becoming a wife and mother is decoupled from the choice of what they study in school.