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"a gender-biased abstract composition of fields"

What does that even mean? Do you mean things like not counting medicine as STEM, because more women than men study it?

That's my weird way of saying STEM is gender-biased.

And why would we exclude a science from STEM? That's like...exactly the opposite of science. Is that a thing you've heard is happening?

As I said, medicine doesn't count as STEM afaik.

Ok. So take it up with President STEM or start a movement to include it or something. It's exclusion isn't really relevant to this convo, since I'm not advocating for it.

My question was, is that what you mean by "STEM is gender biased" - it seems as if on purpose only subjects with male majority are counted as STEM, which would make the whole discussion absurd.

It's exclusion is highly relevant whether you "advocate" for it or not, as it is an indicator that the sampling of "sciences" is biased to get a certain result[1].

[1] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/bias

Life sciences in general are often excluded.

A cynic might claim that that exclusion is because they do not fit the narrative.

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