I have a STEM degree, Chemical Engineering. I went to work in the computer industry as first a programmer, then a manager. At the time I graduated, there was enough discrimination against women in the field that I could not find a job as an engineer.
I stopped working outside the home to raise and home school my children. My favorite question was when someone would ask me, “But what are you going to do about math?”
I have since retrained to work as a mental health counselor.
My kids’ teachers would get mad at me for explaining math above their grade level. My younger girls really got the benefit because I would explain my son’s homework to them.
My girls 1st grade teacher asked me to stop teaching them about negative numbers.
I ignored them. My girls caught on to it quickly.
One of my girls is going to be a math major.
Only one of my kids going into the STEM field.