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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like Nursing and Education are subjects dominated by women students. And both are very important.  But men just don't want to do those jobs.  Engineering, Physics, Math, Computer Science on the other hand -- hard subjects, dominated by male students.  [/quote]

Except, even in the "hard subjects" dominated by men, there really are not enough men taking the courses. The guys are simply not showing up in relation to their population numbers.

Number of women enrolled in nursing + biology: ~170K

Number of men enrolled in EE, ME, Math, CompSci + Biology: ~120K

Plus there's probably around 20-25K women in the "hard subjects" you listed.

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That 170 figure is mostly nursing. Teaching and nursing are two relatively underpaid “pink collar” jobs that men have never pursued in large numbers. It’s not making the point you think it is.  [/quote]

Oh, the "pink collar" six figure jobs?

The point I'm making are that the boys are not even bothering to show up. Sure, the boys may "dominate" STEM and engineering but they are doing so in significantly smaller aggregate numbers than the raw number of women going to college and earning marketable degrees with skills.

In short, out of 10 boys only 2 are getting a "tough degree" while the other 8 are living with their parents and earning minimum wage (if they are even working). These slackers are not getting absorbed by the trades.[/quote]

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