What do you think that article says that agrees with you?
Comment on Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism
blahsay@lemmy.world 8 months agoLWD@lemm.ee 8 months ago
blahsay@lemmy.world 8 months ago
LWD@lemm.ee 8 months ago
When you’re accustomed to being on top, 44% looks like 100% doesn’t it.
blahsay@lemmy.world 8 months ago
44% is workforce stem. This article deals with university stats.
The relevant data is:
In STEM fields, the pipeline is leakiest in life science, psychology and social science fields, which are female-dominated at the undergraduate level — the female share of degree recipients in these fields was 58% at the doctoral level compared with 66% at the bachelor’s level in 2017. In contrast, the four fields with the lowest female shares among bachelor’s degrees recipients — geoscience, engineering, economics, and computer science — have higher female representation among PhD recipients (see here).
LWD@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You’re not talking about all STEM fields. You’re talking about the subset of them that attract more women.
In the preceding sentence, which you conveniently forgot to include:
the very disciplines that, paradoxically, seem to attract large numbers of women at the entry level.
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That seems to say that there is a slight over-representation of women in STEM (degrees earned) overall but only because of a single subject/job-cluster, “health-related”, with a slight to very large under-representation in all others. No “predominant” anywhere.
blahsay@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yep, pretty much. Slightly more women in stem these days and rising.
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Slightly to much less in traditional stem, and rising in some subjects/clusters, decreasing in some. I get that you have a hard time understanding that I pointed out that what you said was wrong, but you should admit to it too, instead of just posting another comment that is misleading.