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> if we were despotic and put people into tracks like the USSR who turned out lots of talented women in STEM It sound like BS. Have you learned it in school?
by d0mine 6y ago
> if we were despotic and put people into tracks like the USSR who turned out lots of talented women in STEM
It sound like BS. Have you learned it in school?
- dijit 6y agoTheir does seem to be an inverse correlation between what we consider free and rich societies and despotic poor societies and their equality in STEM fields. You need not look far, even very conservative countries such as Belarus have stronger representation in IT than a much more liberal society such as Sweden.
- thinkingemote 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox One reason why in less free countries, women and girls choose STEM in a higher proportion is that choosing STEM fields was a better economical decision compared to other jobs, rather than being forced into it for ideological reasons by their states.
- d0mine 6y agoThere is no doubt many Soviet women chose to become engineers. I doubt that the choice was involuntary.