I work in fields related to nurse training and I detect a lack of teenage boys. I don't know why, but after a certain age they disappear. I think one of the causes is the lack of male role models in the nursing field, or adult male nurses to look up to or empathize with.
Is it that hard to understand that different people have different interests? I got into computers because when I was a child I got an MSX2 machine and I thought it was cool, but neither my parents nor anyone close to me was remotely knowledgeable about computers. I had no role models and no one could teach me shit.
FF some thirty-something years: my nephew, who is crazy about videogames, is completely useless when it comes to computers. I've never seen anyone get so nervous when it comes to typing anything in a terminal. And he has me to teach him. He just doesn't like it, and that's ok.
@josemanuel
>schools
>boys
Here is your problem. Boys should not be in school very much. People will argue, but very little schooling is needed and boys are even less able to sit in chairs 7 hours a day than girls.
No benefit to more than 3 hours of school a day other than both parents have to slave.
@dlawlesshardware @josemanuel no children should be locked up indoors to do menial busy-work for a third of their waking lives.
@dlawlesshardware Maybe boys and girls require different learning styles? I don't know. I don't have the answer to that. As a young boy, school didn't really work for me for reasons other than having to sit in a chair for six hours a day. The thing is, all children (boys and girls) need and should be given an education. That's as far as my knowledge goes in that regard.
But the point I wanted to make was smaller and simpler than that. I just think it's pretty stupid to believe that you can force parity in certain jobs by using role models or anything of the like, or that someone will like X just because you do. My father worked for a bank and I never wanted to do the same, even though _he is my role model_.
Some people (both boys and girls) like tech, and some do not. And you can't force them into liking what they don't. So, if we agree on this, why do we feel the need to segregate by sex when trying to get them interested in certain fields? If you're going to do the same job, why do you need a different role model? Why do you even need one at all? It's a pretty stupid idea. And backwards.
What if you want to do something new, something no one's done before? If women need role models, that means only men can do that, right? Only men can innovate, only men can be discoverers, only men can be pioneers, _only men can be role mo..._ Wait...
@josemanuel
To me I think formal education is over rated. My grandfather went to school only til 8th grade and guaranteed knew more than the high schoolers now and then learned more by WORKING.
People act like you can only learn math and reading in a formal setting.
Vocabulary, reading, following instruction?
All learned better actually working.
Very intelligent people need very formal training. The general population is harmed by it and should stop at 8th grade and work.
My point is this: there's no need to reach parity in every job. Why does no one see a problem in the day care sector, where women are maybe 90% of the workforce, if not more? Or in the coal mines, where there are barely any women? Or in deep sea fishing? It's always politics, tech and C-level jobs, for some reason.
Why does no one care about women now being a majority of the students in college in every specialty (with the gap growing every year) when not that long ago it was a concern that they were a minority? Shouldn't we be worried about how schools leave boys behind?