/sci/ - Science & Math

The more women the worse your field is.

>>8920212
>i don't know about you but my math classes had a majority female students from my first year right until i graduated
the plural of "anecdote" is not "data"
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>>8920213
>Want to try that word salad again?
there is a cultural/societal perception that math and science are "for boys", which dissuades a lot of girls from studying them. look down the toy aisle at your local retailer; toys marketed to boys are more likely to involve combat and mechanisms, while those marketed to girls are more likely to involve socializing and artistic endeavors. (or, to simplify, boys play with action figures but girls play with dolls. there's a certain amount of this that does seem to be neurological, if studies on gorillas and infants are any guide, but it's enhanced by our culture.)
sorry about the garbled prose, though; I'm a little wiped out today.

>How do you explain females in the third world rushing to get into STEM?
in third world countries, formal education is the exception rather than the norm. there's often not the infrastructure outside of the main cities for kids to go to school, and economic conditions often mean that they drop out around middle school and start working instead because their families need the income. I'm talking about American/Western society, though.