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Re:An alternative argument for why women leave STEM by tylermenezes on Friday January 17, 2020 @06:04PM (#22080557)
> it's biological

"It's biology" has a long history of being used to justify everything from sexism to racism to genocide. Please provide a source for your claim (and for the implied claim that men do not have the same drive).

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Re:An alternative argument for why women leave STEM by 9HZZRfNlpR on Saturday January 18, 2020 @12:26AM (#22082509)
The source is looking at nature and all the species?

But that doesn't mean we, the smartest of them all, can't make some changes. Nature is also killing the weaker etc, things that we don't agree on as humans.

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Re:An alternative argument for why women leave STEM by deyouz on Friday January 17, 2020 @08:56PM (#22081642)
And of course you were downvoted, while the one claiming "biology!" based on no arguments wasn't.
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