Likestillingens paradoks: Desto mer likestilling, desto færre kvinner velger mannsdominerte yrker

[Aspergers Inc.]

Enda en ny studie viser at likestilling og velstand gir kvinner frihet til velge det de er interessert i, og vrake det de ikke er interessert i. Derfor er kvinneandelen blant de som studerer matte, teknologi og ingeniørfag dobbelt så stor i Algerie som i Norge.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/

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 only grows worse from there: Just 18 percent of American computer-science college degrees go to women. This is in the United States, where many college men proudly describe themselves as “male feminists” and girls are taught they can be anything they want to be.

Meanwhile, in Algeria, 41 percent of college graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math—or “stem,” as its known—are female. There, employment discrimination against women is rife and women are often pressured to make amends with their abusive husbands.

According to a report, Jordan, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates were the only three countries in which boys are significantly less likely to feel comfortable working on math problems than girls are. In all of the other nations surveyed, girls were more likely to say they feel “helpless while performing a math problem.”

The findings will likely seem controversial, since the idea that men and women have different inherent abilities is often used as a reason, by some, to argue we should forget trying to recruit more women into the stem fields. 

Then again, it could just be that, feeling financially 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.

Samtidig i Norge: Tar opp 97 prosent kvinner til studiet i likestilling. Én mann har fått tilbud om plass på årsstudiet i likestilling og kjønn ved Universitetet i Tromsø.

https://www.dn.no/talent/2017/07/24/1435/Utdannelse/tar-opp-97-prosent-kvinner-til-studiet-i-likestilling

[innlagtonline]

Ja er vel noe "alle" vet, men vi føler likevel at vi må kvotere jenter inn i yrker de ikke vil ha, og menn i yrker de ikke vil ha, i "likestillingens" navn. Jeg har aldri forstått poenget og tror aldri jeg vil det heller.

[Gjest Maggie55]

Vi trenger nok alle å gå i oss selv om hvorfor vi velger som vi gjør hele tiden.