The underrepresentation in STEM is significant in the US because outside of government work, they will be the only jobs with decent earnings - and those fields increasingly touch on many others (think of the computers in cars, cellphones - really miniature computers at this point, etc.). With a media and legal profession obsessed with equality of outcomes, they ignore the equality of EFFORT - demanding bookkeepers receive comparable pay to accountants, for example. BTW, it is no accident that “finance” isn’t included in the STEM acronym - it can be easy enough to accommodate people who aren’t very motivated. Yet all that does is lead to female accountants bemoaning their incomes compared to male actuaries - even though there is no comparison between the level of preparation and work involved in those fields.
I disagree that only STEM jobs will pa decently. Good sales and marketing for example is still valuable.
But yeah, no comparison for pay should be made between the likes of bookkeepers and actuaries. And the whining of any but white males needs to stop. Already there is a subclass of Freeper white males worse in the whining department than any women or racial minorities here.