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Re:Why Women Choose Differently at Work by fsloth on Saturday March 03, 2018 @02:30PM (#16511053)
"don't have to deal with the tedious STEM education and workload."

I wouldn't call my STEM education tedious. Demanding more like it. Tedious gives impression of rote learning and abstract concepts separated from practical considerations and lack of joy of discovery and achievement. I could call the curriculum of my MSc in physics a decade ago by many things (I was straining at several points) but not "tedious".

Perhaps there is regional variation in the curriculum, culture and method of education (my university training was in Finland).

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Re:Why Women Choose Differently at Work by curiousgal on Saturday March 03, 2018 @02:41PM (#16511140)
Curricula in Tunisia are taught in French (the native language being Arabic). Access to engineering schools is achieved through CPGE[0] which have an intensive workload. I am sure people who went through that will attest to how tedious it is.

0.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classe_pr%C3%A9paratoire_aux_g...

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