@megschwamb
🤯 Wow, this is insane.
I hoped that since my physics course in school (3 out of 17, I think, were women) things had changed and that maybe Germany sucked particularly badly at this, but I guess I was wrong.
For what comes after school, I can say with confidence that large parts of the repelling effect at least my discipline (electrical engineering) has on women is deeply anchored within and has a lot to do with behaviour and structures that are in no way questioned.
"Oh, we expect the engineer for that job to work 40h a week." - Part time? - "Nah! Too much to do!"
"Did you actually have no women applying?" - "Yes, we had a few." - "Why were all rejected?" - "I can't really tell you..."
I once got told in a literally 100% men company, that "women don't really fit here". I mean, duh, if I was the only man amongst thirty women I might think I don't belong there. But I might not. So who are they to decide that?