[lliamander]

Your assessment makes sense, that there are many environmental factors contributing to the disparity in representation in STEM. Nor do I think the "lack of personal responsibility" to be a useful criticism.

I'm heartened by what I see with charter schools and the benefits they seem to have for minority students. I hope those gains are real and lasting.

My question was prompted by the source article, which posited "white supremacy" as the cause of the disparity. My expectation is that if white supremacy were the cause, that all minorities would be under-represented in STEM, but that does not appear to be the case.