I have often wondered if one day, the skill of underwater basket weaving was suddenly prized by society as highly as STEM jobs are today....would we see the same pressure to have more more X in underwater basket weaving (where X is your underrepresented group of choice).

A follow up question then to people pursuing STEM fields....are you in it because you're interested in the subject or because of the promise of money/status? An age old question I've heard since I was a young boy.