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— despite all the programs encouraging women in stem, there is still a huge gap.  I have a teen daughter who has always liked math/compuyers.  She has done computer science camp since age 7.  This is a camp that has a particular program to encourage girls.  And yet by age 12, she was basically the only girl left in the programming stuff.  I count the heads in her AP comp sci classes, and it’s mostly boys.  There is still a lot of stigma among tween/teen girls for the tech fields (although I think no stigma for the sciences that are perceived as more “helping” sciences like Bio or Enviro).  [/quote]

Yes, you can't force girls to study STEM if they are not interested. Just like not many boys enter teaching or nursing (nursing in particular pays quite well). But we see no efforts to get more boys into those fields, and plenty of effort to get girls into certain fields. Boys are pretty much ignored.[/quote]

But it’s okay to force boys?

There are plenty of effort to get boys into STEM. [/quote]

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