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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boys are raised with the social expectation that they need to support their family. (And yes this is related to attracting a mate.) Girls are not. The question for me is why are there so many girls still attracted to the humanities, despite the economics? What aren’t we teaching them?

None of this is to suggest that the humanities should not be taught, even required. But I do think that girls excuse themselves from thinking through the economic implications of majoring in humanities in a way that boys do not. And that’s our fault. [/quote]

After years of seeing programs promoting STEM and Engineering to girls I was shocked to that my DS's 30 person mathcounts club at MS had 4 girls, 0 of the girls made the team. When we went to State this year, I think there were 2 girls in the top 12.

I have no idea why we have not been able to break through this barrier with girls and STEM topics but the disparity in numbers in my sons Advanced Math class in ES, Algebra 1 in 7th grade, his math competition class, and at Mathcounts points to a continuation of the notion that boys are better at math or belong in math. I have no idea why this continues, I would have expected things to strat balancing out more but it hasn't. [/quote]

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