How is STEM gender-biased?
Are you arguing for innate gender differences in abstract thought?
Or is it just that boys tend to intimidate and shut down girls?
Would gender segregation be better? My wife thinks so.
Are you arguing for innate gender differences in abstract thought?
Or is it just that boys tend to intimidate and shut down girls?
Would gender segregation be better? My wife thinks so.
That's how you can logic it out. If you want data, go find it. Failure to do so is work ignorance and that's OK because changing beliefs is scary and hard.
I'm arguing for humans to learn how to observe themselves and be open to seeing the impact they have on others. And for passing special attention where bias is present in order to properly apply whatever the appropriate anti-bias is.
You seem to really like problems with singular problems and solutions. Maybe looking into systems theory will help you recognize complex systems work a bit differently?
Personally, I think the ultimate solution is for humans to learn they can largely abandon judgment. I have some ideas on how to pull it off, so I'm gonna go back to writing about them.
> STEM is gender-biased because we live in a world where societies are gender-biased.
Really? STEM in practice is of course gender-biased. Because, as you say, "societies are gender-biased". But what about the subjects themselves? It seems unlikely that science, technology, engineering and mathematics are inherently incomprehensible to women.
I don't think the subjects themselves are gender-biased, no. I'm referring to STEM in practice.
It was the comment about not getting complex systems that offended me.
That was definitely condescending of me. Sorry about that. It's not how I want to roll.
Really? Do you really mean biased[1], or do you mean there are gender differences in STEM fields, particularly as to the representation of genders in those fields (as there are in other fields)?
Or are these two the same for you?
But even if that's the case, it's very likely that gender bias in the culture also drives them. That gender bias affects the behavior of everyone involved in the process (students, parents, teachers, peers, etc).
It may even be that gender bias pervades various STEM fields at a deep structural level. That's another perspective on potential innate gender-based differences in interest, aptitude, etc.
It's an efficient way to teach girls and boys differently.
But it also facilitates gender bias.
Especially with respect to STEM it seems easy to check how many girls from segregated schools go into STEM vs girls from coed schools.