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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
And your hypocrite comment doesn’t land either. New Era’s point is that men are encouraged into these roles, but do not take them, and that is on the individual men. Women, up until recently, weren’t even encourage to take this roles. It’s not on them if they aren’t being encouraged, or worse, are being discouraged to take certain roles.
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Only if 'by recently' you mean the last 30 years. Because you'd have to go back at least that far to find the 'girls can't do math' stuff peddled in schools.
And for the longest time women were not encouraged to go into law, medicine, or accounting. Today, half or more of the graduates of those programs are women. I don't recall any great public calls or initiative to encourage young women to enter those fields. They just said 'screw it, I'm going to be a doctor/lawyer/accountant.'
So are we to believe STEM fields are simply far, far more misogynistic than law, medicine, and accounting are?