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Elaborate. What are the "serious efforts" made by medical and law industries that got women into these professions that STEM has not employed?

Furthermore, do you care to identify what in this discussion makes it so clear why women would not go into STEM?




> What are the "serious efforts" made by medical and law industries that got women into these professions that STEM has not employed?

More than that, what "cultural changes" did they enact? From what I've read of the history, culture only shifted after women achieved rough gender parity. Cultural shifts follow demographic shifts, not vice versa.

And even now, gender disparities exist that can't be explained by sexist theories. For instance, why is surgery dominated by men and pediatrics dominated by women?

Sexist theories have a lot of holes like these gender disparities within fields and the gender equality paradox that's the subject of this article. And yet, there's a theory that explains all of the data we see:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0018...

This theory relegates sexism to a minor role, perhaps affecting single digit differences in gender disparities, not the double digits we actually see.




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