If you ask the sort of people who are always angry about other people’s decisions, the wrong people are filling the jobs in STEM. That’s science, technology, engineering, and math. Too many men. A lot of boys have an early interest in STEM, because they’re all about building stuff, blowing up stuff, and building stuff that can blow up stuff. Boys like to sit in front of video-game screens and pretend they’re rampaging across a continent with an inexhaustible supply of ammunition, and for some this leads to an interest in computers. The end result? Apparently, it’s college campuses with He-Man Woman Haters’ Club signs on the engineering building (with the S painted backwards) telling women they’d best steer clear.
Well, if the right people aren’t going into STEM, then STEM must become something else. Say, sociology, tickling, encouraging, meth.
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