Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech?

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?

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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!).

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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:))

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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.

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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.

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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.

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