Women's STEM Careers A Matter Of Choice, Not Ability, Study Suggests

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2013-03-21 22:59

Article here. Excerpt:

'Having skills suited for a variety of careers helps explain why few women pursue math and science jobs, new research finds.

A study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Michigan revealed that women may be less likely to want careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) because they have more career choices, not because they have less ability.

"Our study shows that it's not lack of ability or differences in ability that orients females to pursue non-STEM careers, it's the greater likelihood that females with high math ability also have high verbal ability," said Ming-Te Wang, one of the study's co-authors and developmental psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh. "Because they're good at both, they can consider a wide range of occupations."'

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The students who did best in my Calc I and II classes were female. Most of the tutors for calc were female, too. But not one seemed to have any interest in going into a STEM type of field, unless it was teaching STEM classes. (Well maybe they changed their minds abt going into industrial occupations later after graduation, dunno.)

AND YET, seems all heck must be loosened to try to find some way to get girls to do what most really don't want to-- all to satisfy an ideological agenda held by some bureaucrats. Meanwhile educational opportunities for boys continue to get back-burnered.

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2013-03-22 00:11