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by dvfjsdhgfv 2821 days ago
> The jabs at gender studies near the end were somewhat misplaced in my opinion

Maybe, maybe not. I have several female friends who went on to study soft sciences and regret it. Some say this out loud, some give non-verbal clues. They clearly prefer their daughters to choose STEM careers. The paradox here is that these kids are just not interested in STEM that much, just as my friends themselves are not. They treat STEM as a way of making money, not something interesting to discover. If you don't have this internal curiosity in you, it's hard to pass it on to your kids.

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Yeah, I agree - and furthermore, it's just difficult to impossible to prevail in STEM careers if you're not internally interested as you say.