"The countries that empower women also empower them, indirectly, to pick whatever career they’d enjoy most and be best at."https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/ …
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Mason, the article’s vile thesis is: “in countries that empower women, they’re less likely to choose math & science,” because they’d “enjoy & be best at” other pursuits. (The pesky fact that girls broadly outperform boys in science is negated instantly by the word “but.”)
Do you understand that the idea that women are freely choosing pursuits outside of STEM is predicated on their demonstrated ability to successfully pursue STEM?
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And that women SHOULD be choosing STEM is predicated on the idea that STEM is inherently superior to all other career choices open to them.
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Yep, but systematically denigrating woman-dominated fields & lifestyles, then insisting that women would broadly behave more like men were it not for sexism is somehow not sexist AF
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