Absolutely, this is also the reason why women aren't in technology. The more social and intuitive gender could see that for years of slaving away in high school

Absolutely, this is also the reason why women aren't in technology. The more social and intuitive gender could see that for years of slaving away in high school/undergrad and even grad school, being at the lowest totem-pole of sexual and social hierarchy (from U.S perspective) for a average financial and professional payoff. Obama wants to boost STEM; however the policy-makers and educators fail to understand the competitive disadvantage of "home-grown" industry vs. foreign ones; today, scores of Chinese and Indian PhD candidates and post-doc's are willing to take less pay and more hours for a shot for a green card in US and the respect of academia/engineering accorded to them in their culture. Compare that to an average American engineering undergrad student, who on hand sees that his fine arts/humanities peers are getting laid and party more often, his law/business/medicine peers having greater potential financial payout and the opportunity to manage the engineers down the track - all the while he's suppose to be fretting all night long about problem sets. What a gyp! Sad thing is US society used to reward engineers who invented things and businessman who actually created things instead of MBAs and marketing exec's - downfall of any great civilization comes when the focus of society turns from production to finance (see Holland, Roman Empire, Great Britain and US). There's still a few opportunities though in engineering to make good money, IMO just don't drink the startup culture kool-aid and always do your own thing.