It’s almost like... men and women are different.
> The findings will likely seem controversial, since the idea that men and women have different inherent abilities is often used as a reason...to argue we should forget trying to recruit more women into the stem fields. But...that’s not quite what’s happening here. > In wealthy nations, [women] believe that they have the freedom to pursue [other] alternatives and not worry so much that they pay less.
The research does not seem to find that it is gender aptitude or interest differences that accounts for the disparity in STEM graduates.
> ...the percentage of girls who did excel in science or math was still larger than the number of women who were graduating with stem degrees. That means there’s something in even the most liberal societies that’s nudging women away from math and science, even when those are their best subjects.
> And the more gender-equal the country, as measured by the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index, the larger this gap between boys and girls in having science as their best subject.
The research seems pretty clear.
> ...the percentage of girls who did excel in science or math was still larger than the number of women who were graduating with stem degrees.
This quote is not related to whether there are interest differences or not. They may be equally good in science/math and something else and decide they want to do the other thing without that automatically implying "society is causing this preference" (and by the way, medicine is not "STEM" for some reason, but no one is becoming a doctor without strong aptitude for math/science).
If the research results I quoted above are to be believed, regarding aptitude, someone may excel in A (say girls in these countries get "very good" scores in math at the same rate as boys) and be much better in B (they excel in reading/other skills at a higher rate than boys) and it would be natural for this person to pursue B in that case, no?
I didn't glean it from the article but if you have can you tell if they suggested a reason for this? What is this "something" that’s nudging women away from math and science?
Where's sexism in medicine, sociology, biology?
Could you clarify what does this mean (what is special about Hungary, Russia, Sweden)?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/globally-women-tend-...
based on:
Another Hungarian woman, Marianna Csörnyei, proved the equivalence of the zero measure notions of infinite dimensional Banach spaces.