Engineering360: "The Gender-Equality Paradox for STEM"

On other forums/discussion boards, the mere mention that gender does have an impact on career/life choices, will have you labeled as an ignorant, sexist pig. As an engineer, I provided ample exposure and opportunities for my three girls, yet they all chose a non-STEM path. Bring your kid to work day, STEM activities (YESS), general exposure to engineering around the house, but nope. Not interested. Medical field, liberal arts, and law are their interests respectively. And I'm OK with that. It's important that they do things they like. It wasn't STEM.

Some will say our society discourages young women from the STEM field and I will claim bull-hockey. We bend over backwards to encourage young women into the STEM fields, and yet we're not even close to parity and the trend is glacially slow at best.

At some point we will have to accept that gender makes a difference. Oh, the horrors.

These studies of boys and girls who decide to go in engineering continues to be a great source of humor.

Because the aspirations of boys and girls are different, they now give it a name: "paradox".

Why is it considered problematic for girls who decide not to follow the boys in a hi-tech career? What about what girls want?

Women with scientific minds may not want to go into science or hi-tech. Many of these women decide that they would rather go into business, government, banking, education, the social sciences, et al.

/Psych majors, pay attention.

In the United States, as in many other countries, gender stereotypes affect both women and men in many ways. The same achievements and behaviour are rated higher if they belong to a man. I have been studying equality essay for a long time, conducting various polls, involve students in writing equality essay samples in order to collect my personal statistics. I want to understand at what point in the development of mankind menfolk began to be considered more competent and who are more willingly hired to work with higher wages.