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RE: Uncertainty avoidance
Like, why are most engineers men? if you answer that you got your answer too.
A higher percentage of girls don't like science and lean toward biology or lenguages, maybe because they like it more, that's all.
Fact check: biology IS a science. I am female and chose science as my major.
And, for the record, my sister is an engineer, and spent a couple of decades designing piping systems for everything from major Texas oil refineries to a Korean nuclear power plants. And her then-husband and business partner, an architect, deferred to her for the designing aspects, because that's where she excelled, and she knew more about it than he did.
While I agree that a disproportionate number of men are engineers, that is indeed changing; and I can tell you bluntly that a large part of the disparity in gender comes from the colleges themselves, and male professors and counselors who have in the past typically steered women AWAY from these fields. I was told point blank that I should major in Music or English.
The good news is that, in recent years, fewer and fewer women are listening to them, and are instead choosing to follow their hearts and their own interests, which is as it should be.
Bottom line, women are individuals, as are men. Any attempt to lump all of us - men or women - into a whole, are doomed to failure, which is also as it should be. Diversity is our strength!
Each person has the right to decide for him/herself, but also I can tell you that in countries where there is no discrimination and more women in the university than men like in Spain, women chose professions that don’t require hard science in general.
Yes I also know women that are good engineers and men that are good doctors and good nurses, but the reality is what it is and not what you would like it to be.
I have never seen a counselor before choosing what to study and I think most people here also don’t. We chose by ourselves.
And for me biology is science but not hard science, unless you go into research. Anyhow we were speaking about engineering.
Actually, biology these days is every bit as cutting-edge as engineering, as we are rapidly disproving the cherished "truths" of previous generations.
Science is science, and regardless of the degree, most science degrees require the same core classes to graduate. And that has been true all along.
As for "what I would like it be," I have no opinion.
I think that people should be able to study what they want to study, with no interference from others, but we're not there yet.
Hopefully we are getting closer.
So what is it about some men (and women) who could be steered away from certain things by elders (like with crypto) but they do it anyway? Those same professors who would tell a woman not to be an engineer would be telling men and women not to touch Bitcoin back in 2013.
Absolutely true.
Basically, it is up to each of us to make our own decisions, based upon the best information we have available to us, and go from there.
Too many people are ego driven, and far too concerned with what others think and will judge them for, but happily that was never me.
I studied what I wanted to study, and was never sorry for a moment, and I know my sister would agree.