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Re:Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies by mantas on Thursday February 15, 2018 @07:25AM (#16383474)
Or cool dude teaching them at school. More men at education -> more positions in tech for women. As well as more women looking for these positions.

Can't wait for the next campaign to make men 50:50 in kindergardens and schools!

Re:Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies by kirillkh on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:40AM (#16384300)
It's when you talk about young men in kinder gardens that you realize how ridiculous this whole discussion truly is. There will never be 50:50 young men to young women in kinder gardens. Not even 20:80. That much is obvious.

Most young men do not like to be with children. Most young women do not like working in car repair. While none of these claims are sufficiently substantiated in research, if the first can be true, then surely the second one can be, as well?

Re:Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies by mantas on Thursday February 15, 2018 @07:25PM (#16388972)
IMO the only reason is that IT looks relatively clean and easy job for nice money.

Although after working in the field for over a decade, I don't really think that's true. While it's clean physically, mentally it's totally different story. Personally I'm on the line if I want to keep doing what I love or if I switch to something more sane.