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An interesting question comes from the fact that not all STEM fields are "straight white males".

Take a look biology. Back in the late 1990s, the majority of biology graduate students were female. When I was in industry, the number of females working on biology was also very close to 50%.

So why have women felt comfortable entering the field of biology when it used to be dominated by males?

There are lessons to be learned here.