[moosekaka]

I have often wondered if one day, the skill of underwater basket weaving was suddenly prized by society as highly as STEM jobs are today....would we see the same pressure to have more more X in underwater basket weaving (where X is your underrepresented group of choice).

A follow up question then to people pursuing STEM fields....are you in it because you're interested in the subject or because of the promise of money/status? An age old question I've heard since I was a young boy.

[Hextinium]

As someone in university and talking to a lot of both genders why they want to join engineering I get a lot of nebulous answers that don't really traceback to a main character trait or reason. Which is fine you don't have a totally define answer but I am kinda perplexed by the desire to do something with seeming no reason.

As a side note I see a lot of women engineers start out as saying they want to do Biomed and the switching to something else. Not totally sure why but I find it interesting.