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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Jordan Peterson always points out, studies show that in the most “gender egalitarian” Nordic countries, where freedom of choice is high, women choose “female occupations” like nursing and teaching at far higher rates than other countries.
Well, iFag phones are not going to help you with physics and math classes?
And your point is...?
That you were an anomaly?
Were you one of the few pretty girls sitting in your chemical engineering classes? Or one of the many?
Come on, luckystarmom! You were in the trenches! You are the star witness? What was your overall impression, as it relates to the topic of this article (sex-differences)?
Were there noticeable differences in the proportion of male vs. female classmates in your STEM field? Did the women appear to show less aptitude and/or interest? Did they drop out and get married in greater numbers? Did they earn their degrees, but then settle for a domestic role or a job in a "more-feminine" field?
Regards,
Has slipped from 17th Place to 19th Place - just behind "Miniature Golf."
Regards,
Back in the day I don’t remember many women in chem or engineering. They were in nursing. Lots there. Higher math was mostly men. Other classes, electives I took predominantly male were astronomy, meteorology, geology, archeology, biology except marine bio.
They don’t have the aptitude for STEM subjects because it’s not in their DNA. Nothing can change that.
NOOOOOoooooo....!!!! ..and all I wanted to do is putt with them, all night long. Just, putt.
Well, diffr'ent strokes...
What's your handicap? Mine's an oversized mashie.
Regards,
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).
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As a manufacturer this is an increasingly visible problem.
Some local manufacturers that I associate with, over the last decade have been putting machinery & time into local education to increase interest & opportunity in manufacturing.
So far, the office with the computer is the magnet, while the shop with machinery is the repellent. Kids want office work just like adults.
Many people don’t like being out in the field, it’s a general trend.
Not always.
My daughters excelled at it and loved it, and it has served them well for getting jobs.
Of course, a good work ethic hasn’t hurt either.
Who gives a rats ass? Why this sicko insane push that women should be stem? The dirty secret is that across the board they don’t like it and aren’t as good. They like easy high laying jobs jobs like medicine and Law etc.
Likewise here.
Got my degree in meteorology, my best friend is a computer/math major, my daughters both physics majors, excelled in math, and are doing well in STEM fields.
Thanks Saxon Math.
The irony is that this whole tranny movement is pushing gender stereotypes like nothing else we could have imagined.
Instead of determining male or female based on hard facts, like DNA or anatomy, now it's about what you *feel* or like to do that has been ultra classified as *boy things* and *girl things*.
The hypocrisy of the left is never ending.
That men and women’s brains are wired differently is completely unacceptable to the modern liberal.
“ They like easy high paying jobs like medicine and Law etc.”
Or undressing on camera for strangers.
Me? I've got woods. LOL
If they are on average less interested in STEM fields, that is not a problem. To each her own.
Women are differently competitive. Just not equally interested in STEM studies and careers.
That is not a problem.
They’ve never had an more than a very small interest in STEM fields. In my engineering studies the vast majority of them dropped out by the end of first year.
Ironically in high schools girls far outperform boys in general in math and science.
I think girls just don’t think a “job” in a STEM field sounds very appealing to them. There are a lot more “geeky” guys than girls and that is who is most drawn to STEM as a career.
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