Re:Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2020 for...
by tptacek on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:07PM
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No, this doesn't feel like it holds up either. People looking to be doctors don't generally get chemistry PhD's. But those are the stats I'm looking at.
Re:Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2020 for...
by Jensson on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:50PM
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> People looking to be doctors don't generally get chemistry PhD's
What are you talking about, people with chemistry PhD's are by definition doctors. Are you talking about physicians? You don't need to be a physician to develop medicine, a chemistry phd is more than enough to join a pharma company.
In order to bridge that gap you'd need to tie programming to something women love as much as men loves working on machines that has moving parts.
Edit: And I've seen CS degree variants with heavy UX focus that tends to get 50/50 gender balance. It is really easy to shift gender balance in degrees this way, just shift it more to humans and you get more women, more to moving things and you get more men.