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Are Young Women Losing Interest In STEM Fields?
Her Agenda ^ | Feb 26, 2024 | Jacqueline Gualtieri

Posted on 03/01/2024 7:55:57 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

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To: metmom

...and having you as a Mom.

My daughters did fine too in math, and liked it. I can’t speak for your family, but in my case, I made damn sure they stayed ahead of their grade level, and with that, they never had a problem and went into STEM fields.


41 posted on 03/02/2024 3:50:49 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Real women are still in for the STEM program. They probably got wanna be women and non binary unaware of what they are mixed up in the polling data.


42 posted on 03/02/2024 4:01:23 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Ironically in high schools girls far outperform boys in general in math and science.

That may have meant something in the past. Now, I think it says more about high school than it does about boys and girls.

43 posted on 03/02/2024 4:17:24 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: BobL

The key to math is being taught well. Math follows rules very consistently. Learn the rules and you can get the basics down very easily.

Granted, advanced algebra and calc are a different thing to a degree, but still they follow the same basic rules and doing calc equations is not hard if you know your math facts.


44 posted on 03/02/2024 4:24:22 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I’ve worked in the STEM field all of my adult life. Females are very much the minority to this day. And lookers? fuggedaboutit. The hotties are always over in marketing or communications.


45 posted on 03/02/2024 4:28:00 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Tonight on The Bickersons... )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Seems to be just as many female nurses as ever in stem jobs


46 posted on 03/02/2024 4:46:12 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: metmom

“The key to math is being taught well. Math follows rules very consistently. Learn the rules and you can get the basics down very easily.”

Absolutely! It was developed over THOUSANDS of years, by trial and error, and there is NO WAY that the clowns running ‘education’ will come up with better ways of teaching it. It’s simply not possible.


47 posted on 03/02/2024 5:07:15 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Come to think of it. with all of the Hallmark Christmas movies my wife watches, I don't remember any of the heroines being in a STEM occupation.

Although an engineering degree would probably be easy for anybody who can figure out how to get 3 extra winter coats and 15 different outfits into one carry-on suitcase. Including shoes.

48 posted on 03/02/2024 5:26:11 AM PST by Bernard ("It ain't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” Twain)
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To: BobL

Bingo!

So stupid the way they refuse to accept that men and women are different.


49 posted on 03/02/2024 5:48:21 AM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Lazamataz; metmom; luckystarmom; DesertRhino; wardaddy
Some intriguing Freudian Slips on this thread:

Desert Rhino - "They like easy high laying jobs jobs like medicine and Law etc."

LuckyStarMom - "I switched my major, and hot a job in Silicon Valley."

Not implying that women always have the tactic of sex to advance their endeavors...

Fist bump to Metmom for her and her girls. All of society needs everyone doing the best they can with their talents without preconceptions, predjudice or suppression.

Just because a movie like "Hidden Numbers" hyper-inflated the contributions of a few black ladies to NASA does not mean women or minorities are 'held down'. The vast majority of women have the biological directive to reproduce that surpasses career goals. Their DNA programming for finding a protector Alpha male overwhelms rational sense, hence "bad boys" stay in their options - birthing new wastes of oxygen that continue to plague us in a world where we can't just exterminate them without law crashing down on us.

Women's overwhelming proclivity for safety over freedom have shifted politics to Leftism ever since they got the vote...and most of the women getting to the Supreme Court back that up. Biological Imperative rules over all but the strongest. While I SO love women I believe their inclusion in political leadership has been an overall disaster.

Who's proposed for President now? Kamala, Nikki, Hillary and Big Mike? We can't cast our votes on politically correct BS and trends - we have to have the best and most qualified who actually love our country over seeking power and fame for themselves.

50 posted on 03/02/2024 5:52:23 AM PST by MikelTackNailer (wrote the romantic ballad "Your Money's on the Dresser")
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

In general, STEM is hard.


51 posted on 03/02/2024 5:54:25 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: metmom

Totally agree about the gender stereotypes being pushed. I am not a stereotypical woman; I am glad I am not a girl now.


52 posted on 03/02/2024 7:11:12 AM PST by vaskypilot
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To: MikelTackNailer

Not Freudian slips. Try voice to text autocorrect and old eyes.


53 posted on 03/02/2024 7:33:19 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: luckystarmom

Like Chemistry ?Hmmmm , ever consider breaking bad?


54 posted on 03/02/2024 12:05:24 PM PST by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: DesertRhino

LOL! Please keep up the good work. Last time my Freudian slipped she got pregnant.


55 posted on 03/02/2024 12:24:10 PM PST by MikelTackNailer (They prove mental hospitals need reestablishment.)
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To: vaskypilot

AMEN!


56 posted on 03/02/2024 1:36:35 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: vaskypilot

I think that there are a lot more of us non-stereotypical women out there than most people realize.

I just never see them(us) wearing it on our sleeve.


57 posted on 03/02/2024 1:38:01 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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