Why don’t European girls like science or technology? (2017)

Re:Why don’t European girls like science or technology? (2017) by throw_bin_hat on Monday June 20, 2022 @06:38AM (#31808641)

Because science and technology is low status grunt work for peasants who are clever.

Finance, law, medicine, etc are higher status middle class roles and that's where the aspirational end up.

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Re:Why don’t European girls like science or technology? (2017) by hocuspocus on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:28AM (#31809012)

Modern finance is literally indistinguishable from maths and tech.

Law isn't a guaranteed way to a high status career anymore, far from it.

Medicine sure. But the initial investment is multiple times that of a tech career, for fairly marginal gains in quality of life (when it isn't actually worse).

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Re:Why don’t European girls like science or technology? (2017) by IdiocyInAction on Monday June 20, 2022 @08:39AM (#31809605)

Quant finance might be indistinguishable, but that‘s still a small portion of finance. Traditional finance is still way more people-oriented.

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Re:Why don’t European girls like science or technology? (2017) by chrisseaton on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:38AM (#31809085)

Yeah, technology still isn’t a socially respected job.

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