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Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession
sciencehabit sends news of a study published in the Journal of Educational Psychology which found that science is still perceived as a predominantly male profession across the world. The results were broken out by country, and while the overall trend stayed consistent throughout (PDF), there were variations in perception. For explicit bias: "Countries where this association was strongest included South Africa and Japan. The United States ranked in the middle, with a score similar to Austria, Mexico, and Brazil. Portugal, Spain, and Canada were among the countries where the explicit bias was weakest." For implicit bias: "Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, and Sweden were among the countries with the highest implicit bias scores. The United States again came in at the middle of the pack, scoring similarly to Singapore. Portugal, Spain, and Mexico had among the lowest implicit bias scores, though the respondents still associated science more with men than with women."
Women are cowards by nature. That's the reason they shy away from hard science. When Barbies lead to a crisis for girls and and their self-esteem, what does a 'you are wrong' from the scientific peers do? So they prefer soft stuff with no unambiguous results or even better pseudo-science where they can make up results and 'truth' as they see fit.
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Believing a woman would not only be a problem, but a real disaster. "Men" who do this regularly should be put under tutelage.
There are solutions, but it is very hard to convince Americans to accept the hiring of the third-best job candidate in order to get more women into a field. They start going ape and pretending that hiring should be a meritocracy, conveniently ignoring the fact that the playing field for opportunities is skewed male.
Source: I am a woman who plays with particle accelerators for a living. I fix them. I write control software for them. I smash atoms together with them. The women I work with, though woefully few, are harder working and smarter than most of the men. Their resumes are less impressive because they had to fight the system every step of the way to get where they are, while the men stepped onto a well worn path and got groomed every step of the way.
If your reaction to this is to disbelieve my credentials, then you are part of the problem.
Is that last line a troll, or supposed to be taken seriously? My experience is quite different than yours regarding gender performance, with technically helpless women surrounded by orbiting beta males solving every sticky wicket management forgot to steer them clear of. If your reaction to this is to disbelieve my claim, you are part of the problem.
PHP... knowing CPU.. Assembly... very funny. Typical legend building by feminists and their lapdogs. The handling of the earliest computers was extremely tedious... flipping many switched, punching holes in cards. Boring and unthinking tasks. Just the tasks women prefer: Simple, with no responsibilities, non-competitive. The computer women back then were no developers, they were just a different kind of secretary. As soon as this changed they left in droves... voluntarily. Even today, when women "code" one can safely assume that it is not the next operating system, programming language, speech recognitions software, but some nice window decoration or flower buttons... with man made frameworks, of course.