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How's that STEM education working out?
Much of the public enthusiasm for STEM education rests on the assumption that these fields are rich in job opportunity. Some are, some aren’t. STEM is an expansive category, spanning many disciplines and occupations, from software engineers and data scientists to geologists, astronomers and physicists.
What recent studies have made increasingly apparent is that the greatest number of high-paying STEM jobs are in the “T” (specifically, computing).
Earlier this year, Glassdoor, a jobs listing website, ranked the median base salary of workers in their first five years of employment by undergraduate major. Computer science topped the list ($70,000), followed by electrical engineering ($68,438). Biochemistry ($46,406) and biotechnology ($48,442) were among the lowest paying majors in the study, which also confirmed that women are generally underrepresented in STEM majors.
So study cybersecurity, not slime molds.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 04 2017, @09:23PM
Okay, let's come at this from another direction then.
Discriminating against people based on skin color is foolish and creates hatred in those discriminated against.
When you discriminate in favor of someone based on skin color, you necessarily discriminate against everyone else based on the same.
Thus every time you do this you are fanning the flames of racially based hatred for the demographic you extended preference towards and for yourself.
The above also applies to gender through the exact same logic chain.
You are not making the world a better place; you are filling it with a double scoop of hate.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.