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I think it's "bad" only in so far as social and cultural pressure may have dissuaded some talented young women from a great career in STEM. Also, if we as a so

I think it's "bad" only in so far as social and cultural pressure may have dissuaded some talented young women from a great career in STEM. Also, if we as a society want and need more engineers and scientists, we want to broaden the talent pool to the extent possible.

proc0 3y ago
On the first point, that could end up being a discussion on freewill, which makes sense it is such a highly debated topic. The second point is fair, but would raise questions about why we push society in that direction and not another. It goes back to trying to engineer society instead of letting it happen. I think we can be cautious of where we don't want to go, but pushing in any one direction is imposing values on other people. The flip side would be pushing society in a religious direction as it used to be done in many cases in history.