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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by novok on Thursday December 12, 2019 @07:09PM (#21777913)
I think it comes from how software has become a financially lucrative profession in nice office environment with semi-flexible hours relatively recently. An overall attractive package with the corresponding political attention it gets as a result.

While all the other things you mentioned other than maybe oil field work are not as financially lucrative.

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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by rumanator on Friday December 13, 2019 @02:48AM (#21779855)
> I think it comes from how software has become a financially lucrative profession in nice office environment with semi-flexible hours relatively recently.

In short, the goal is to put people of a certain group in positions of power and influence.

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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by colinb on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:39AM (#21780557)
People of a certain group are already in positions of power and influence. The goal is to ensure that people from all groups get a slice of the power and influence. Why would you (or anybody?) not want that?
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Re:The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018) by rumanator on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:52AM (#21780614)
No one expressed any opinion or judgement, so please don't impose your prejudice on others. The point is that the first step to fix a problem is to correctly identify it. If you misrepresent the problem them obviously you cannot succeed at fixing it.
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