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Originally Posted by Karthik
Sure.
Unintentional and societal bias are a large reason as to why 92.2% of US mechanical engineers are male, and that the ratios are similarly out of whack in most other engineering fields.
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I've attached two pictures that were derived from this data set, by which I mean, I ordered the jobs by Median income (lower income is on the top)
The second one, I snipped out only engineering.
Point is, percentage is really only half the question. Who cares if a certain group dominates employment in a sector which doesn't pay well such as Library Science?