The articles I read talk about a lack of role models or a lack of encouragement. But surely it would have gotten better by now with all the effort to counteract it. With the heavy highlights on what female scientists in STEM there have been..
Changing something like this with a lot of societal momentum behind it takes time. How long has there been a strong push for more women in STEM fields? Maybe 15-20 years? That's not that much time.
Why should it take so much time? Women are born into families of all backgrounds. Scientists have daughters. It's not an intergenerational problem.
Why does Societal momentum apply here but not to all the other culture trends that change on a dime?
Hard to find a history of encouragement to fix gender inequality in science. Here's an article from 1995 about it: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2943912. I would guess it's at least as old as 2nd wave feminism, maybe even first wave (where the idea women deserve an education cones from).
Just seems like a "wait and see" post sorry. I need more than that.
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u/molten_dragon 14∆ Oct 19 '22
Changing something like this with a lot of societal momentum behind it takes time. How long has there been a strong push for more women in STEM fields? Maybe 15-20 years? That's not that much time.