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Originally Posted by ASD20
Not saying that that isn't a problem or that STEM diversity is not a problem, but the larger overarching problem is the gender pay gap. The reason people are pushing for more women (and more of everyone) in engineering is that engineering is one of the highest paid professions (Most of the other highest paid professions are also dominated by men). If salaries were swapped, then there probably would be a large push for men in hairdressing.
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The gender pay gap is a statistical myth for the exact reason you mentioned. Women traditionally take on lower paying jobs (Psychology, pediatrician, art vs math, cardiac surgery, orthopedic surgery) as well as take more time off for child rearing.
Pay gap exists, but only when you total up all the money earned by women and all the money earned by men- which is a deceitful way of looking at it.
A man in field X and a woman in field X will make the same amount provided they work the same number of hours at the same level of rigor.
I do agree that the reason there is a bigger push for women in engineering is because it pays more, simple as that. Nobody
wants to be a garbage collector, so nobody is going to push for a man or woman to become one. However, the women that do go to college and graduate tend to pick majors that lead into lower paying fields.
Whether this is a result of some sort of systemic sexism, that's up for you to decide.