In a landmark study involving over a million students, it appears that the reason boys dominate girls in STEM fields is not that they are better than girls at it (the reverse seems to be true) but, perversely, that gender differences are lower in non-STEM fields.
About the STEM grades, which are often abused as an explanation:
A classroom with more variable grades indicates a bigger gap between high and low performing students, and greater male variability could result in boys outnumbering girls at the top and bottom of the class.
“Greater male variability is an old idea that people have used to claim that there will always be more male geniuses – and fools – in society,” O’Dea says.
The team found that on average, girls’ grades were higher than boys’, and girls’ grades were less variable than boys’.
But girls' and boys' variability were much closer in non-STEM fields.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @08:00AM (2 children)
There was a study that showed that women are 200% preferred over men during resume shortlisting, on same credentials, in STEM. Of course, that doesn't help a lot of men get laid by claiming alpha status of being a feminist, nor it helps bring moolah to gender
bigotsstudies.Also, let us nor forget, there are female incels - they are called feminist.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday December 10 2018, @12:47PM (1 child)
Involuntary feminists?
Ha! There, I laughed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday December 10 2018, @08:31PM
Infems? Makes sense. Wasn't the name of John Hammond's corporation in "Jurassic Park" InGen? And they were all female dinosaurs, because everyone knows that female (infems?) dinos are better at STEM, because females (Mother Nature) will find a way.