Re:No need to pinkify – Girls get interested in tech because...
by ashark on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:35PM
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Why didn't other well-respected (better-respected, even) professions—doctor, lawyer, veterinarian—have to do this kind of thing to achieve balance or near-balance (or even swapping balance in favor of women)? Or did they have to do this stuff? IIRC the ratio on those started to swing heavily in the mid-80s, so it'd have to be something that happened around then, or earlier.
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Re:No need to pinkify – Girls get interested in tech because...
by curun1r on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:26PM
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Because the professions you listed aren't based on a skill that children develop during play in the same way that engineering is. A lot of engineering is about visualizing how smaller pieces of a larger whole can fit together, even if those pieces are more complex and/or more abstract than the Lego pieces that we give to kids.
The professions you listed primarily rely on memory and pattern recognition which don't differ too much between the sexes.