It says that but it's not that women choose lower stress jobs. Just a different kind of stress. Children & sick people are stressful.
Oh, I see! That makes more sense from a cultural constructivist viewpoint & societies which do limit by gender do limit their pool of talent to their detriment. Of course, there is very little reason to think we live in one.
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Maybe there isn't but there are measurable benefits to our Society in getting those STEM optimized minds not already in STEM to be properly incentivized to work in the field.
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That's why we did that. Women know their own minds. If they don't want to do STEM, that's fine too. They're more likely to have other skills too and more choice.
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I think the point is that the current incentives aren't sufficient to bring enough STEM optimized non-males into the field.
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Might have to accept that. Gender differences exist. We have trouble getting enough male nurses too. Ultimately, I am a believer in the rights of the individual to pursue their own fulfilment so cannot support pressuring women into STEM (or men into nursing)
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Helen, no one is pressuring women into STEM. If you don't like STEM you can avoid it. Yet, MANY women who are great at STEM also like it. We need 'em.
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That was the conversation I was having, Eric. Someone was saying women have a responsibility to go into STEM whether they want to or not because they are underrepresented & it's a cause of the wage gap. I was disagreeing. My daughter is going into STEM coz she loves maths & tech.
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Awesome for your daughter! My guess is that Miriam was talking about women who already love STEM, but who get put off by the career path as it needs to be reconfigured. But she can certainly contradict me if I have that wrong....
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That's correct, Eric. If I were to rewrite my original Tweet, I would change out the word "responsibility" for "opportunity."
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