22/09/2020
today enjoy a better status compared to the past. Thank God, we live in the where women have gained a lot of confidence and have dared to enter the horizons which were forbidden to them (literally and figuratively) merely 3 decades ago. Women are still discriminated against on grounds of *x but today she has enough courage to answer back. Working women have dual responsibilities to earn and look after their families. we will have to work with communities, , and partners to remove barriers to girls’ education and promote gender equality in education – even in the most challenging settings.
Because. A new study explores a strange paradox: In countries that empower women, they are less likely to choose math and science professions.
Though their numbers are growing, only 27 percent of all students taking the AP Computer Science exam in the United States are female. The gender gap grows worse from there: Just 18 percent of American -science college degrees go to women. This is in the U.S., where many college men proudly describe themselves as “male feminists” and girls are taught they can be anything they want to be.
41 percent of college graduates in the fields of science, technology, , and math—or STEM, as it’s known—are female. There, discrimination against women is rife, and women are often pressured to make amends with their abusive husbands.
So what explains the tendency for nations that have traditionally less gender equality to have more women in science and technology than their gender-progressive counterparts do?
the issues don’t appear to be girls’ aptitude for STEM . In looking at test scores across 67 countries and regions, Stoet and Geary found that girls performed about as well or better than boys did on science in most countries, and in almost all countries, girls would have been capable of college-level science and math classes if they had enrolled in them.
The gap in reading “is related at least in part to girls’ in basic abilities and a generally greater interest in reading; they read more and thus practice more,” Geary told me.
What’s more, the countries that minted the most female college graduates in fields such as science, engineering, or math were also some of the least gender-equal . Stoet and Geary posit that this is because the countries that empower women also empower them, indirectly, to pick whatever career they’d enjoy most and be best at.
When the study authors looked at the “overall life satisfaction” rating of each country—a measure of economic opportunity and hardship—they found that gender-equal countries had more life satisfaction. The -satisfaction ranking explained 35 percent of the variation between gender equality and women’s participation in STEM. That correlation echoes past research showing that the genders are actually more segregated by the field of study in more economically developed places.
The upshot of this research is neither especially feminist nor especially sad: It’s not that gender equality discourages girls from pursuing science. It’s that it allows them not to if they’re not interested.
The findings will likely seem controversial because the idea that and women have different inherent is used by some to argue that we should forget trying to recruit more women to the STEM fields. But, as Janet Shibley Hyde, a gender-studies professor at the of Wisconsin who wasn’t involved with the , put it to me, that’s not quite what’s happening here.
“Some would say that the gender STEM gap occurs not because girls can’t do science, but because they have other alternatives, based on their strengths in verbal skills,” she said. “In wealthy nations, they believe that they have the freedom to pursue those alternatives and not worry so much that they pay less.”
Instead, this line of research, if it’s replicated, might hold useful takeaways for people who do want to see more Western women entering fields. In this study, the percentage of girls who excelled in science or math was still larger than the number of women who were graduating with STEM degrees. That means there’s something in even the most liberal societies that’s nudging women away from math and , even when those are their best subjects. The women-in-STEM advocates could, for starters, focus their efforts on those would-be STEM stars.
Then again, it could just be that feeling secure and on equal footing with men, some women will always choose to follow their passions, rather than whatever labor economists recommend. And those passions don’t always lie within science.
National Science and Technology
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