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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM by dontcare25 on Monday February 19, 2018 @02:54AM (#16411416)
Career Successful women in stem told me that she would have pursed for a different career if she wasn't the daughter of immigrants. She was destined to be an engineer or a doctor.
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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM by telesilla on Monday February 19, 2018 @03:34AM (#16411561)
>engineer or a doctor

These are both STEM fields (Science, technology, engineering, mathematics). Doctor is a crossover in my view, anyway. Sounds like she would like more autonomy with her career choices, rather than not be in a STEM field.

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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM by groovy2shoes on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:11AM (#16411701)
I think GP means that she felt like engineer and doctor were the only options she could choose from, and therefore she was effectively dragooned into a STEM career. That is, if she'd been dealt a different hand, she would've preferred a career in something other than engineering or medicine.
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