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Is the Talent Pipeline for Women in Stem Broken?
- nonrandomstring 3y agoYes its been broken for some time. Here's why [0]. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-do-we-get-more-women-coding-fix-how-its-taught-and-used https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-do-we-get-mo...
- tuatoru 3y agoHas anyone tried, you know, asking women why they don't go into STEM courses, and having graduated, why they don't go on to work in the industries?
- jqpabc123 3y agoDon't look now but the talent pipeline for men in STEM is broken too. The H1B visa program is part of the issue but the real proof is the employee attrition rate. The half life of a STEM career in the USA is about 10 years. 10 years from now, about half of today's STEM workers will have been replaced by cheaper production units from both domestic and foreign sources. Some of this is by "choice" (people seeking career longevity and a better work/life balance) but a lot of it is not. Burn 'em out with long hours and no overtime and then discard them once their economic effectiveness starts to wain. This is standard operating procedure in much of the industry. Real statistics are hard to come by but based on personal experience, few other "careers" can match the attrition rate. The problem is not that too few people are studying STEM --- it's that too many who do are being discarded. This should be obvious from the start of your "career" in most cases. Just notice how STEM co-workers beyond middle age are a small minority --- and it isn't because the prior generation all got promoted. Maybe women are just starting to pick up on this. Maybe men should too.