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Re:Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech? by htns on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:49AM (#14165052)
"Tech people want to believe that the gender disparity in their field is shared among all the STEM fields"

It's convenient for both women's studies departments and tech recruiters to pretend other fields don't exist. It is taboo to talk about it, to the point that I haven't come across any serious piece of writing that dared to seriously contemplate the question of "what are the girls choosing to do instead?", but I don't think it has much to do with psychoanalytic undercurrents.

Re:Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech? by douche on Friday April 21, 2017 @09:02AM (#14165153)
> what are the girls choosing to do instead?

https://nsf.gov/statistics/2016/nsb20161/uploads/1/6/at03-12...

Re:Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech? by Ajedi32 on Friday April 21, 2017 @09:39AM (#14165454)
Interesting. Seems like the biggest ones are Nursing (83.4%) and Teaching (81.1%; kindergarten teachers in particular are 97.7% women!).
Re:Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech? by htns on Friday April 21, 2017 @09:24AM (#14165317)
I'm aware that there are statistics. Nobody interprets them. (also the link doesn't even include medicine (edit: it does i just missed it D:))
Re:Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech? by falcolas on Friday April 21, 2017 @09:38AM (#14165446)
> the link doesn't even include medicine

It does mention nurses, nurse practitioners, and technicians.

Re:Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech? by cholantesh on Friday April 21, 2017 @09:09AM (#14165206)
Wow. I knew there was a disparity; I didn't think it was this stark.
Re:Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech? by 77pt77 on Friday April 21, 2017 @09:27AM (#14165340)
There are no female "Agricultural engineers"?

I find that hard to believe.