Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You left out this part: Yenor said on Twitter that "making special efforts to recruit women into fields where they don't seem to want to be" should be stopped, and he denied wanting to prevent women from obtaining those professions.
I wonder about this also. If women don't want to go into engineering why make such an effort to recruit them?
Medicine and law are different of course, women don't need to be recruited since plenty apply plenty on their own.
Well maybe the issue isn’t that they don’t want to enter the field. Maybe they have been discouraged from taking the appropriate classes, not had mentors, been taught that engineering is too hard or requires a different personality type.
*exactly* - there are programs to encourage and recruit females into those careers because for too long, they were not encouraged to do so, and many feel (still) unwelcome in those fields.
When I was a CS major in college in the 90s I was one of two girls in my first year CS class. A female friend who is a software engineer is surrounded by men who make disparaging comments to her.
Male dominated fields are difficult for women to crack because they feel so unwelcome.