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Re:Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code by KGIII on Monday October 09, 2017 @06:40PM (#15438027)
You can argue that but, out of curiosity, I just sent my daughter a text.

Me: 'How long do you think you kept friendship bracelets for?'

Her reply: 'Maybe two weeks. I still have one from [redacted] somewhere.'

As I said, it surely isn't universal but she and her friends all fit that pattern. It didn't keep her from STEM, she's an MD.

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Re:Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code by klipt on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:08PM (#15439007)
> It didn't keep her from STEM, she's an MD.

That's not out of the norm; roughly half of medical students are women: https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/

The "shortage of women in STEM" mostly refers to engineering and computer science.

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Re:Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code by KGIII on Monday October 09, 2017 @11:40PM (#15439148)
I'd call medical a science, but that's just me.
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Re:Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code by klipt on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @03:08PM (#15444479)
That's what I'm saying. It's only some of the sciences that have a shortage of women, and medical isn't really one of them. In fact one branch (nursing) has a huge oversupply of women.
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