Posted on 03/01/2024 7:55:57 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
The declining interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields among women and girls is an ongoing discussion, and researchers have had knowledge of the gender gap for generations. The gap continues to exist today, with a 2023 Gallup survey finding that Gen Z men are nearly 20 percent more interested in pursuing STEM careers than Gen Z women.
Why is the gender disparity in STEM interest and career choice so apparent? Studies suggest the lack of interest may not be the only problem.
As of 2021, women make up a third of the STEM workforce in the U.S., despite also making up just over half of the U.S.’s total population, according to the National Science Foundation. Of that population, white women make up a significant proportion. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Black women only make up 2 percent of the STEM workforce, and the Student Research Foundation found that Hispanic women made up less than 2 percent.
The 2023 Gallup poll also found that Gen Z women reported learning fewer STEM concepts than the Gen Z men surveyed. Environmental science was the only one of the seven concepts in the study that more women than men said they learned in school. More men than women agreed that their schools encouraged them to pursue STEM careers, offered STEM-related classes, and provided STEM-related extracurricular activities.
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This study also gets into female race. What about male race? IMHO black males were also missing from STEM.
“Are Young Women Losing Interest In STEM Fields?”
Perhaps young women NEVER had an interest in STEM, but instead were pushed into it?
That’s it exactly. It’s a rare woman who’s drawn to STEM-type stuff . . . or can excel at it. Minorities? Nope.
Forget STEM fields, there’s Taylor Swift and the movie Barbie.
Bingo. This is reversion to the mean.
There was an article a couple days ago that trannyism is losing favor with young people, too.
There have been insane pushes to get women into STEM and youngsters to buy into the “changing sex.” Both were fads and are maybe fading.
“Math is hard”
When I clicked on the thread I knew somebody would say that eventually.
Someone has to make the sandwiches.
Smart move on the ladies part. Why bust your tail in these degrees when your government will allow an army of Indians into this country to drive down wages & drive you out of your field?
how to land a rich guy 101
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We called that the Mrs. degree.
I was a software engineer. I love sci Fi. I’m very good at math. I was originally a chemical engineering major. I really like chemistry, but I had an internship at an oil and gas company. I hated going out in the field. I loved playing with their computer and working on spreadsheets (back in the early 80s).
I switched my major, and hot a job in Silicon Valley. I worked for about 10 years before I quit to raise kids.
I didn’t have the option to work remotely or part-time.
I spent 20 years in STEM jobs. I might have met 10 female engineers as opposed to probably a thousand men. And they were competent. Just very few and far between.
Same in college. In general, men and women have different interests and skills. I know it’s heretical to say it nowadays but it’s true.
Women are not competitive. Maybe it’s due to the testosterone?
Are women?
Never mind that.... are young women losing interest in SEX?
I bet girls who do show an interest in STEM classes are told they are really boys. The gender stuff being pushed could effect girls who do not fit a 1950’s stereotype.
The cultural nepotism means STEM is being increasingly populated by males from seriously misogynistic places who can get away with it because of DEI intersectional bingo and know it.
The wokoids have killed meritocracy and what’s left in the workplace is factionalism/tribalism. Something is good not objectively through data or because it’s a right thing, but because it benefits a favored subgroup.
Lefties wanted the victim pyramid and are now sad because they’re not actually on top.
thank you...
If current party thought was strictly enforced I might think men and women are different.
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