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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 4781924, member: 42773"]My alma mater went through a stint of begging for contributions to encourage women in STEM studies. One day I said offhandedly to my wife, "I wonder why more women <i>don't</i> go into STEM studies." Her answer was, "Because they don't want to." And I thought, "Pfft, that's no answer, that's almost a tautology." But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that's actually <b>the</b> answer: they don't want to. It's not that society forbids them anymore. They just prefer to do something else.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why can't we all just do what we like? (Within moral and legal limits of course). If old straight white men are over-represented in numismatics, so what? Does anyone complain that we're under-represented in basketball and ballet? If we really saw each other as human beings endowed with certain unalienable rights (like choosing vocations and avocations), it wouldn't matter what gender, skin color or sexual preference we evinced.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d">edited</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 4781924, member: 42773"]My alma mater went through a stint of begging for contributions to encourage women in STEM studies. One day I said offhandedly to my wife, "I wonder why more women [I]don't[/I] go into STEM studies." Her answer was, "Because they don't want to." And I thought, "Pfft, that's no answer, that's almost a tautology." But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that's actually [B]the[/B] answer: they don't want to. It's not that society forbids them anymore. They just prefer to do something else. Why can't we all just do what we like? (Within moral and legal limits of course). If old straight white men are over-represented in numismatics, so what? Does anyone complain that we're under-represented in basketball and ballet? If we really saw each other as human beings endowed with certain unalienable rights (like choosing vocations and avocations), it wouldn't matter what gender, skin color or sexual preference we evinced. [COLOR=#ff4d4d]edited[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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