"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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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.
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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Mason, agreed. You raise valid new issues. I denigrated no field. I didn’t insinuate what women should do. I merely reject this article’s core thesis that women are “best” at non-technical fields, and its disregard for obvious factors like role models, systemic discrimination.
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With respect, the findings here are that young women (generally) do as well with STEM as young men, and better at reading. If anything, I think this highlights the distinct possibility that early academic environments, in general, actually work better for girls.
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