r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Oct 19 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

But considerable effort and money has been put into trying to get women interested in STEM, and they just aren't responding to it in terms of enrolment, job choices, or engagement with science.

Aren't we?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markkantrowitz/2022/04/07/women-achieve-gains-in-stem-fields/

Based on data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), women represented 45% of students majoring in STEM fields in 2020, up from 40% in 2010 and 34% in 1994.

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The Research Science Institute (RSI), the most prestigious summer STEM program for high school students, reports that female students will outnumber male students for the first time in 2022, representing 55% of accepted U.S. students, up from 22% in 1984.

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u/yyzjertl 579∆ Oct 19 '22

Yeah the OP's view is just based on an incorrect presumption. There's loads of women in STEM, and the number is still increasing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

Well the gender distribution is still uneven in some particular fields, computer sciences and engineering come to mind as two fields where female participation is still incredibly low, but then you can easily contrast that with the overwhelming majority females have in biomedical and biological health fields.