Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’ve noticed my friends who are MD’s, scientists, majored in stem are single or have to compromise a lot more than women who studied humanities.
Thoughts?
And no I’m not comparing some MIT alum to sec marketing woman…
…I mean from relatively same school tier…
I noticed this when I went back to my 15th year college reunion this summer.
There are some factors that make it not exactly a like for like comparison (my stem friends are more likely to be from middle class and non-white/ethnic white backgrounds)
Have you noticed this as well?
First of all, it’s not “stem.”
The correct term is STEAM; it has been so for over a decade.
Do better.
Actually S—STEAM is the new norm.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’ve noticed my friends who are MD’s, scientists, majored in stem are single or have to compromise a lot more than women who studied humanities.
Thoughts?
And no I’m not comparing some MIT alum to sec marketing woman…
…I mean from relatively same school tier…
I noticed this when I went back to my 15th year college reunion this summer.
There are some factors that make it not exactly a like for like comparison (my stem friends are more likely to be from middle class and non-white/ethnic white backgrounds)
Have you noticed this as well?
First of all, it’s not “stem.”
The correct term is STEAM; it has been so for over a decade.
Do better.
Anonymous wrote:I’ve noticed my friends who are MD’s, scientists, majored in stem are single or have to compromise a lot more than women who studied humanities.
Thoughts?
And no I’m not comparing some MIT alum to sec marketing woman…
…I mean from relatively same school tier…
I noticed this when I went back to my 15th year college reunion this summer.
There are some factors that make it not exactly a like for like comparison (my stem friends are more likely to be from middle class and non-white/ethnic white backgrounds)
Have you noticed this as well?
Anonymous wrote:I think STEM people (men and women) are very flexible more than we give them credit for. And their marriages tend be long and stable. My parents (both math Phds) just celebrated their 50th anniversary. They look so cute together,always holding hands, saying they love each other etc. I can't even remember a time I saw them arguing.
So I think STEM women have a lot of qualities that men like. Personally I have noticed that STEM women that are very smart are far less condescending toward others compared to women in the social sciences and humanities. When I was single many women here in DC looked down on the college I went to, even though I graduated summa cum laud with an engineering physics degree. A lot of them were lawyers, marketing executives etc.