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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM by howlgram on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:05AM (#16411669)
this would not only explain why less women go into stem, but also why more guys go into it, as it is common for a guy to feel the onus of securing financial safety for his family.

And not gonna lie, even I, a guy, picked STEM partly because I see it as the best escape route from this country, I would have picked something more fun and less demanding otherwise

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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM by tom_mellior on Monday February 19, 2018 @05:04AM (#16411912)
> it is common for a guy to feel the onus of securing financial safety for his family

In other words, this is not about what the article claims (girls are just not interested, presumably for biological reasons) but about expectations hammered into all of us by society.

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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM by belorn on Monday February 19, 2018 @05:18AM (#16411964)
Securing financial prospects is also highly associated with dating success for men but not women. One might wonder how important dating success is during the ages in which young men decide to go into stem.
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