Comment on Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism

• 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).

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  • 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.

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