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Yup here's technology graduates specifically, apart from STEM as a whole: https://honeypotio.github.io/women-in-tech/ https://honeypotio.github.io/women-in-tech

Yup here's technology graduates specifically, apart from STEM as a whole: https://honeypotio.github.io/women-in-tech/ https://honeypotio.github.io/women-in-tech/ If anything, the gender equality paradox is even stronger. At the highest we have a lot of more conservative ex-soviet countries like Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, and Lithuania. The United States has considerably more women in tech (25%) than more progressive countries like Sweden (21%), Norway (19%), Austria (17%), Germany (17%), Netherland (16%), Belgium(14%).

tptacek 5y ago
I don't know what this is, but it doesn't answer the question I asked, which is "what is the difference in participation between mathematics and computer science in different countries" (or substitute chemistry for mathematics, if you like).
- Manuel_D 5y ago
  > the question I asked, which is "what is the difference in participation between mathematics and computer science in different countries" (or substitute chemistry for mathematics, if you like). This chart represents this. It extracts the "T" from the rest of STEM.
camgunz 5y ago
I see this argument here and there and to me it's pretty thin for a couple reasons: 1. Tech in the US is super lucrative and you can't cherry-pick it--women's salaries increase by 77% if they switch to tech here. This is true across the board: in the bottom 13 of your linked Index (sorted by % Difference of Women in Workforce and Women in Tech) women get a 29% salary increase, whereas in the top 13 the increase is 51%. This probably indicates a more parsimonious explanation: despite being more hostile to women, tech in these countries is more lucrative. 2. More broadly though, it doesn't pass a simple smoke test. Just in the top 13, how are Iceland, Ireland, and Canada right next to Romania, Turkey, and Mexico? There's a sincere lack of correlation.

tptacek 5y ago

I don't know what this is, but it doesn't answer the question I asked, which is "what is the difference in participation between mathematics and computer science in different countries" (or substitute chemistry for mathematics, if you like).

Manuel_D 5y ago
> the question I asked, which is "what is the difference in participation between mathematics and computer science in different countries" (or substitute chemistry for mathematics, if you like). This chart represents this. It extracts the "T" from the rest of STEM.

camgunz 5y ago

I see this argument here and there and to me it's pretty thin for a couple reasons: 1. Tech in the US is super lucrative and you can't cherry-pick it--women's salaries increase by 77% if they switch to tech here. This is true across the board: in the bottom 13 of your linked Index (sorted by % Difference of Women in Workforce and Women in Tech) women get a 29% salary increase, whereas in the top 13 the increase is 51%. This probably indicates a more parsimonious explanation: despite being more hostile to women, tech in these countries is more lucrative. 2. More broadly though, it doesn't pass a simple smoke test. Just in the top 13, how are Iceland, Ireland, and Canada right next to Romania, Turkey, and Mexico? There's a sincere lack of correlation.