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You said it yourself: "it didn't stop me from pursuing my own education". We do know that it is stopping women/minorities from pursuing engineering programs/jo

You said it yourself: "it didn't stop me from pursuing my own education". We do know that it is stopping women/minorities from pursuing engineering programs/jobs by way of their male dominated nature.

nhangen 14y ago
No, actually we don't. Can you prove that, or is it just hypothesis?
- theevocater 14y ago
  I'll focus on women for a moment: http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2011/08/03/women-stem-opportunity-and-imperative http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2011/08/03/women-stem-opportuni... http://www.esa.doc.gov/Reports/women-stem-gender-gap-innovation http://www.esa.doc.gov/Reports/women-stem-gender-gap-innovat... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/04/women-engineers_n_1568695.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/04/women-engineers_n_1... The proof is in the pudding: There are less women in STEM fields and in STEM programs in college. Even making the grandiose assumption that women have the exact same opportunities as men (see above, they don't) fewer women are accepted to universities, they matriculate less, and even less stay in the field. Males on the other hand seem to do just fine. This reveals to us that there is a disparity at each step of the way that is causing women to be unable to compete or desire to. When one person drops out, it isn't a trend. But when you have industries full of this data combined with a history of sexism and racism, you don't throw your hands up in the air and say "oh the boat will right itself".
  - bromang 14y ago
    the obvious explanation is that women aren't as good at STEM subjects.
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- bethly 14y ago
  Sapna Cheryan, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Saenam Kim, Classrooms matter: The design of virtual classrooms influences gender disparities in computer science classes, Computers & Education, Volume 57, Issue 2, September 2011, Pages 1825-1835, ISSN 0360-1315, 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.02.004. Available at: http://ilabs.uw.edu/sites/default/files/Cheryan_Meltzoff_Kim%20Computers%20and%20Education%20(2011).pdf http://ilabs.uw.edu/sites/default/files/Cheryan_Meltzoff_Kim... Also: Wendy Cukier, Denise Shortt, and Irene Devine. 2002. Gender and nformation technology: implications of definitions. SIGCSE Bull. 34, 4 (December 2002), 142-148. DOI=10.1145/820127.820188 http://www.jise.org/Volume13/Pdf/007.pdf http://www.jise.org/Volume13/Pdf/007.pdf Do you have any citations, or are you just pulling your sexism out of your ass?

nhangen 14y ago

No, actually we don't. Can you prove that, or is it just hypothesis?

theevocater 14y ago
I'll focus on women for a moment: http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2011/08/03/women-stem-opportunity-and-imperative http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2011/08/03/women-stem-opportuni... http://www.esa.doc.gov/Reports/women-stem-gender-gap-innovation http://www.esa.doc.gov/Reports/women-stem-gender-gap-innovat... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/04/women-engineers_n_1568695.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/04/women-engineers_n_1... The proof is in the pudding: There are less women in STEM fields and in STEM programs in college. Even making the grandiose assumption that women have the exact same opportunities as men (see above, they don't) fewer women are accepted to universities, they matriculate less, and even less stay in the field. Males on the other hand seem to do just fine. This reveals to us that there is a disparity at each step of the way that is causing women to be unable to compete or desire to. When one person drops out, it isn't a trend. But when you have industries full of this data combined with a history of sexism and racism, you don't throw your hands up in the air and say "oh the boat will right itself".
- bromang 14y ago
  the obvious explanation is that women aren't as good at STEM subjects.
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bethly 14y ago
Sapna Cheryan, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Saenam Kim, Classrooms matter: The design of virtual classrooms influences gender disparities in computer science classes, Computers & Education, Volume 57, Issue 2, September 2011, Pages 1825-1835, ISSN 0360-1315, 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.02.004. Available at: http://ilabs.uw.edu/sites/default/files/Cheryan_Meltzoff_Kim%20Computers%20and%20Education%20(2011).pdf http://ilabs.uw.edu/sites/default/files/Cheryan_Meltzoff_Kim... Also: Wendy Cukier, Denise Shortt, and Irene Devine. 2002. Gender and nformation technology: implications of definitions. SIGCSE Bull. 34, 4 (December 2002), 142-148. DOI=10.1145/820127.820188 http://www.jise.org/Volume13/Pdf/007.pdf http://www.jise.org/Volume13/Pdf/007.pdf Do you have any citations, or are you just pulling your sexism out of your ass?