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Encouraging Girls into STEM fields
blakfyahking
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Ladies, should we push girls to study STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) to address the obvious lack of gender equality in those fields?
Do you see this as a relevant issue for young girls?
If so, how do we get younger girls/college age women to want to get into STEM?
/real thread seriously
Do you see this as a relevant issue for young girls?
If so, how do we get younger girls/college age women to want to get into STEM?
/real thread seriously
Comments
Isn't it proven that men tend to excel in these areas though?
not necessarily
studies have shown that girls are not catered to in these fields which leads to a later gender gap
boys are pretty much encouraged from an early age cause of stereotypes of what is masculine/feminine work
meanwhile girls are ignored when it comes to the things that bring boys into the field
something as simple as videogames have had an impact on the gender gap in fields such as computer science
instead of caring about the future for young girls out here
here's an article that basically says we want our daughters to grow up to be birds
http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2012/06/20/stem-fields-and-the-gender-gap-where-are-the-women/
Wishing won't make it happen
ok
i don't even think it's necessarily that we don't push girls into STEM fields at this point, it's that there's barely any prominent women that get shown so girls don't even think it's a viable option. it's why girls don't really aspire to be politicians/POTUS, filmmakers, CEOs or any other "boy's club" type of occupations anymore either because there are so few examples to follow.
Are they encouraged more or are more boys just naturally interested in these subjects?
Personally speaking..I have no interest in those fields because it's not my passion.
I feel like more women are probably drawn to social or artistic fields, and that comes naturally for them.
Not saying that this goes for all women, but if we had to generalize.
I'm not sure this is good advice. People should be required to be good at math and science in order to make careers out of them. I don't want my scientists and engineers to be incompetent.
But I also think trying to influence what they become is ridiculous. Similar to putting a football in a boy's hands and thinking he's gonna be an athlete.
When they get old enough to make their own decisions, they'll choose what they like. More than likely it won't be what the parent wants.
I think whatever sparks their interest should be developed. Of course stem subjects would be beneficial and progressive for young women. But I would want my child to follow her dreams and be the best at whatever she chose to do.
A genuine passion is how true stars are born.
What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like?
Let’s suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance of students, they come to me and say, well, "we’re getting out of college and we have the faintest idea what we want to do". So I always ask the question, "what would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?"
Well, it’s so amazing as a result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say well, we’d like to be painters, we’d like to be poets, we’d like to be writers, but as everybody knows you can’t earn any money that way. Or another person says well, I’d like to live an out-of-doors life and ride horses. I said you want to teach in a riding school? Let’s go through with it. What do you want to do?
When we finally got down to something, which the individual says he really wants to do, I will say to him, you do that and forget the money, because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
And after all, if you do really like what you’re doing, it doesn’t matter what it is, you can eventually turn it – you could eventually become a master of it. It’s the only way to become a master of something, to be really with it. And then you’ll be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don’t worry too much.
That’s everybody is – somebody is interested in everything, anything you can be interested in, you will find others will. But it’s absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don’t like, in order to go on spending things you don’t like, doing things you don’t like and to teach our children to follow in the same track.
See what we are doing, is we’re bringing up children and educating to live the same sort of lifes we are living. In order that they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children to do the same thing, so it’s all retch, and no 🤬 it never gets there.
And so, therefore, it’s so important
to consider this question: What do I desire?
🤬 , it depends on how well she's singing, lol
Because Beyonce isn't successful?
What about Michael Jordan or Meryl Streep's parents?
What about anybody that has a lucrative career outside of the STEM fields?
Everybody has their own talents that should be recognized and cultivated into something even greater.
The last thing I would want for my child is to be pushed into a field that she has no passion for just because it's a money maker or the 'right' thing to do.
Do what you LOVE..if that falls within the STEM fields, awesome..those are the kids that will be the true talents. But it's okay if it doesn't too.
Life is too short imo.
As a person with a BS in Math amd Computer Science and MS in Comp Sci, you should not push them into STEM fields. Either they fit or they don't.
if i have kids i'll try to push them in that direction