Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)
by a1369209993 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:47PM
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No, it isn't; Biology is a part of science. Medicine is, as DuskStar put it, "[Science/]STEM adjacent".
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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)
by cortesoft on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:09PM
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How is it not a part of science? What does a field need to have to be included in STEM?
Just because there are other skills needed besides science based ones doesn't mean it isn't a science field.
Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)
by eindiran on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:34PM
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It's obviously not a 'basic' science though and other applied sciences that are uncontroversially included in STEM get their own letter (engineering and technology).
People differ in whether they think medicine and the other applied sciences fall under the 'science' umbrella or not. Try searching around and you'll see a lot of mixed opinions on the subject.
Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)
by repsilat on Thursday December 12, 2019 @08:47PM
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I guess you could argue that Tech and Eng getting their own letter means they don't fit under the "S" in STEM, so STEM might not include the non-enumerated applied sciences. (Nor fields of "applied technology", like trucking.)