I think it would be interesting to see a book of anonymous, high-level women in these industries sharing their perspectives on what some of the key challenges and exit points are. I don’t believe it’s sexual harassment. I suspect its more that coalition building is too hard.https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1139388930837512192 …
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Replying to @liminal_warmth
STEM's a little weird vs business I'd bet it's mostly (i) differences in the statistical distribution of interests across genders, (ii) STEM careers are basically chest beating for nerds per Philip Greenspun http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Also salient is that I think you can’t dissect the motivations of interest areas without a discussion of cross-gender status-driven incentives and social rewards for performing difficult creative and problem solving work. I do believe nurture plays a big role.
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Replying to @liminal_warmth
would you guess women are better-represented in STEM in developing countries with conservative gender mores (eg, Pakistan) or in rich countries with long-standing and aggressively-feminist social views and policies? no peaking
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Replying to @eigenrobot
The former based on direct experience And I have a plausible theory about that! Ah twitter makes long form discussion so hard
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Replying to @liminal_warmth @eigenrobot
I think women are most successful at building STEM careers when 1) men accept them as a group member and 2) they are primarily financially motivated and it’s their best option to capitalize on their unique traits (intelligence in the case of STEM)
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Replying to @liminal_warmth @eigenrobot
Traditional gender role signals tend to make MORE space for women in male dominated groups because it creates a sense of comfort and a script for interaction. This is hard when getting into the space in the first place kind of requires you to be unconventional compared to peers
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Replying to @liminal_warmth @eigenrobot
I could write a whole essay on this but need to go to work now
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