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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by kaitai on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:07PM (#21775808)
Most people, period, are not interested in programming a computer all day.

My girl child likes trucks, not Frozen, and the pressure from other adults to get her to conform and play with Disney-branded dolls is non-trivial and unrelenting. Ugh.

Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by Reedx on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:25PM (#21776040)
> Most people, period, are not interested in programming a computer all day.

That's true. But if you ask 1000 men and 1000 women if they want to program all day, you'll get a much higher % of men.

> My girl child likes trucks, not Frozen, and the pressure from other adults to get her to conform and play with Disney-branded dolls is non-trivial and unrelenting. Ugh.

I largely agree, Disney is overwhelming. Though no one has pressured or tried to make my daughter conform, other adults do mostly buy her girl typical things. Her cars, trains, dinosaurs, legos and the like mostly came from us (didn't buy any dolls, she got those from others). She likes trucks and Frozen. But mostly Paw Patrol. It's amazing, everything else is a distant 2nd to those pups!

Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by mixmastamyk on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:41PM (#21776199)
> the pressure from other adults to get her to conform and play with Disney-branded dolls is non-trivial and unrelenting

Throw them out, seriously. I did when they got to be too large a portion of the toys.

Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by joelhoffman on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:59PM (#21776393)
I thought you meant the other adults at first, and I completely agreed!
Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by marcosdumay on Thursday December 12, 2019 @06:58PM (#21777850)
Often you can just return them to the store and get something she likes.
Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by kaitai on Thursday December 12, 2019 @07:36PM (#21778094)
We practice constant pruning.