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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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