The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)

Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by cortesoft on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:39PM (#21775478)

Engineering and Math are the only two of those letters that have an actual college major with the same name..... you can't major in 'science', you major in one of the subfields of science. In fact, medicine isn't even an undergraduate major (although some universities will offer a 'pre-med' major, but not many).

Many people who go on to go to medical school will major in a STEM subject in undergrad (like biology or something)

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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by bakuninsbart on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:43PM (#21775539)

> In fact, medicine isn't even an undergraduate major (although some universities will offer a 'pre-med' major, but not many).

This is a US-centric view - most people do in fact study medicine right out of school. It is interesting though that the definition of what constitutes a field vary quite greaty around the globe.

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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by cortesoft on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:12PM (#21776532)

It was using the example of US colleges to make the point that it is too narrow a definition to say only fields that are pure science count as STEM. There are very few pure science or math fields, but I don't think you need to be 'pure' to be considered STEM.

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