Women have a responsibility to go against tradition and get more STEM training.
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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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We argued about this for ages. If your point is that all women should have the opportunity to go into STEM, we are in full agreement.
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Responsibility still comes into play once the decision is made. To some extent, it can feel like swimming upstream to be a minority in a job sector, but women have the tools to succeed today so if they want it they have to go get it. This was not always the case.
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