Funny thing to see is that as a country becomes MORE developed, women tend to be LESS inclined to attend STEM studies.
Stem jobs are relatively shitty jobs... paid well, but work schedule can be relatively screwed up. If you add enterpreneurship to that, it makes the work-life balance even worse. Women on average prefer better work-life balance, and men prefer careers where they can get higher and earn more.
In some countries (less developed), the only way to lead a realatively OK life is to get a stem degree and work something related to that. In more developed countries, the job market (and social support) makes it possible to live OK even with a "worse" degree (ie. the ones where you can't get a job with in less developed countries).
When you remove the "survival" aspect of going to highly paid STEM job you get women who choose less technical jobs and huge disparity in number of women in tech.
Personally I don't think that is an issue at all but I feel I am in the minority, at least when we look at the decision making level.
Let “Hollywood” glamorize STEM, propagandize it and you’ll get a better pool of talent. Instead the proposition is to scrape the bottom of the barrel harder.
There is a lot of opportunity in the diversity industry, even though things like diversity training do not seem to have any effect, not even shielding companies from lawsuits.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-we-work/201203/d...
It sound like BS. Have you learned it in school?
You need not look far, even very conservative countries such as Belarus have stronger representation in IT than a much more liberal society such as Sweden.
One reason why in less free countries, women and girls choose STEM in a higher proportion is that choosing STEM fields was a better economical decision compared to other jobs, rather than being forced into it for ideological reasons by their states.
I doubt that the choice was involuntary.