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Re:Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-Time Scien... by vixen99 on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @01:33AM (#19206060)
No, we can't be 'pretty confident'. Sometimes the 'best' don't want to do the job. 90% of nurses are female (in Sweden where gender equality is a top priority).

What would be the motivation to induce or somehow encourage males to take up a career for which they clearly have no particular enthusiasm. I wonder how many males harbour a secret desire to be a nurse but are discouraged by societal norms? Need some amazing evidence for that one.

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Re:Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-Time Scien... by belorn on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:03AM (#19207223)
What motivate a person to work? There is plenty of study that has asked this question and tried to quantify how much it is for money, a feeling of being useful, the social environment, perks, having fun, social status gain, and so on.

Pretty sure more males harbour a secret desire to be a nurse than males that harbour a secret desire to be a garbage man, and yet we see nurses are 90% female and garbage men being 90% male. The question is why.

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