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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 4781924, member: 42773&quot;]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, &quot;I wonder why more women <i>don&#039;t</i> go into STEM studies.&quot; Her answer was, &quot;Because they don&#039;t want to.&quot; And I thought, &quot;Pfft, that&#039;s no answer, that&#039;s almost a tautology.&quot; But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that&#039;s actually <b>the</b> answer: they don&#039;t want to. It&#039;s not that society forbids them anymore. They just prefer to do something else.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why can&#039;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&#039;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&#039;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>

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