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computer parts posted:It is important to emphasize that the women already in the STEM/high paying fields are still much more likely to switch out of those fields than men, and that's primarily due to the work culture. In a male-dominated trade, managers tend to start assuming that workers don't have wombs. So they set it up so it's hard to do the job if you are a primary caregiver to children. Think of the video game industry - crunch time and the culture of hanging out, doing nerd stuff after hours, make it really hard for a mother to be really part of the team. If there were a lot of women on the team, people would start to remember that kids exist. Female-dominated industries tend to have more of a "we leave on the dot of five" culture, not because women are lazy, but because daycares close at 6pm. This would be a bit of a culture change for many male-dominated industries, which have a sort of vibe that clocking out is for wimps who need more coffee. The pipeline is definitely an issue, though. The time to recruit a coder is 10 years old. Not many people get really into code if they start after their early teens. It seems to require the brain malleability of a kid to really click. Many academic subjects are like this. To get women into STEM you need to persuade girls that STEM is fun. And our culture is really bad at that. It's hard to change culture at the click of a finger, no matter how many cool punk girl hackers you write into TV shows.
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