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What's funny that women are already a majority of STEMM undergraduates (in addition to being a majority of undergraduates overall). Which leads to organization
by klipt 4y ago
What's funny that women are already a majority of STEMM undergraduates (in addition to being a majority of undergraduates overall).
Which leads to organizations contorting themselves to define STEMM in some way that excludes all the female dominated majors: biology, nursing, psychology, social science...
They can't admit that women are already winning at education, so they have to keep drilling down to find sub-sub groups where they're a minority.
- harimau777 4y agoI think that some of what's at play is that, with an undergraduate degree, engineering and tech are the only STEM majors that give a good chance of actually working in STEM. So you even a majority of STEM degrees may not lead to a majority of STEM workers. For what it's worth, I also don't think that most people would consider psychology or social science to be STEM and this is the first time I've heard of STEMM to include "medicine". So that may factor in as well.
- yamtaddle 4y agoSTEAM has become a popular version in k-12 education. The "A" is "Art".
- harimau777 4y agoThat seems like it defeats the whole concept of the term. As I understand it, depending on ones perspective, the point of STEM was: - Things to study to make a good income. - Things to study to help America maintain technical strength. - Things that capitalists want you to study. Art doesn't seem to relate to any of those. (Not saying art is bad. Just that it doesn't seem like it belongs with the others.)
- onewheeltom 4y agoWe are talking about more than women here. I didn’t realize we were tracking which gender is “winning”. Whatever that means.