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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From the article:
[quote]That means there’s something in even the most liberal societies that’s nudging women away from math and science, even when those are their best subjects.[/quote]
As a woman in STEM (Ivy Physics PhD) I would suggest that maybe it's the fact that we are harassed and belittled from the minute we set foot into our first advanced STEM classroom. Personally, I'm not sure at this point the goal should be to convince more girls to go into STEM so much as it should be to make sure those of us who do aren't treated like interlopers and to take harassment seriously.

I have an employee who consistently compares me and my responsibilities to those of his SAHW. I earn twice his salary, and he simply doesn't have the technical chops to do my job...yet he can't get past constantly talking about how hard it must be to have to raise kids and work (as if he's not doing the same).

Women aren't not choosing STEM because we don't like...we're leaving because we are treated like garbage.[/quote]
perhaps you would feel more at home being a physics phd in tehran? care to move to the middle east tomorrow? [/quote]
I wasn't aware that our bar for comparison was Iran...

That said, your point is a non-sequitor. The question is why do women in America not choose STEM. One possibility is that we don't like it. But the reality is that some of us do. We like it so much, in fact, we put up with non-stop harassment to pursue careers in STEM...and then have randos on the internet suggest we should just be happy we don't live in an Islamic state when we point out the reality of what it's like to be an American woman in STEM.[/quote]

+1 well said![/quote]

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