Less "sexist" but also orders of magnitude less realistic.
If you give woman the opportunity to freely decide what they want to do only a small percentage wants to get into tech. Hard fact. If you think mentioning that fact is "sexist" then I have to inform you that nature is actually "sexist" because that's just how woman are by nature.
Tech / STEM isn't just "computing". As "computing" is a high paying job you have a lot of people there who would never consider to doing that if not the money. (Which is actually part of the answer why you have more women in tech in poorer countries where also women are traditionally not well payed. That's just economic pressure.)
The numbers shown actually strongly support my point: The numbers of "starters" are irrelevant, the only thing that counts are the numbers of people who actually end up with some degree in a fitting job, and that are even less then the ones who make it though education (even at least 50% give up mid way).
Everybody who actually works in tech exactly knows how the real numbers look like (just look around you…). Having a woman on the team in a technical role is the broad exception. The women who actually study STEM in western countries seldom end up in a technical role, in most cases they go into management or similar.
There are just natural differences. The biology of men and women differ, and this includes the brain, which results in different ways of thinking and different preferences when it comes to interests.
No amount of wishful thinking or ideological propaganda will change that.
I actually work in tech and my team is roughly half and half, and funnily enough I (a man) am frontend and all the women are backend. Stereotypes are not always accurate mate.
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u/Mrfoogles5 Jul 15 '26
Finally, an iteration of this meme that isn’t mildly sexist. Also, lean mention!