Women are majority of STEM grad students and they earn a majority of STEM bachelor's degrees - and have since 2004
Whoever defines the categories defines who is a bigot, who is a victim, who is an oppressor, with measures like this.
From the article : "By several measures, there really is no STEM gender gap in higher education. There are now more women than men earning STEM bachelor's degrees and there are more women than men enrolled in STEM graduate programs for master's and doctoral degrees.
... according to several measures, women are actually slightly over-represented in STEM graduate programs and earn a majority of STEM college degrees. A lot depends on how we define “Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)” and that definition is fairly fluid and subject to various interpretations. "
Women are majority of STEM grad students and they earn a majority of STEM bachelor's degrees - and have since 2004
@SecondJon Engineering is the lowest. I could never get a date, so sad.
@Surasanji
I think that's the most important point. The fervor around statistics like gender representation in STEM, the gender pay gap, etc., should always be taken with a grain of salt. The only difference with this article is that the author is honest about that.
The general consensus seems to be that we're all in a bigoted oppressive culture, but that's only because we've looked at statistics in a very specific and arbitrary way.
This drives bad political and corporate and educational policy, and it also draws obscures what is actual oppression.
@hasmis
Women are majority of STEM grad students and they earn a majority of STEM bachelor's degrees - and have since 2004
@SecondJon @hasmis I think we need to take this article with a grain of salt, the author himself mentions in the comments that 'STEM' is apparently a super arbitrary thing and different groups use different metrics and so it's good to say that by THIS metric, Women are good to go- but apparently in other metrics, and other groups they show a wide disparity.
Good article, though. Very interesting.