Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads
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Re: Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads
#2Never forget: causation does not necessarily imply correlation
Re: Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads
#3I don't think it's a breakthrough, I remember seeing the exact same conclusion from a different research a few years ago already. It was even a little broader since it mentioned that countries with the most gender equality also had the most stay at home moms.
Re: Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads
#4Never forget: causation does not necessarily imply correlation
What would that mean in this context?
A pretty reasonable explanation is that men and women have different interests. Egalitarian countries generally provide an environment where people are free to express these differences in preferences. A mechanism that would make it causal.
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#5> Girls also tended to register a lower interest in science subjects. These differences were near-universal across all the countries and regions studied.
So girls are less interested in these subjects, but in more unequal countries (read poorer) they do it for career prospects, while in more equal countries (read richer) they do what they want (not STEM subjects).
Re: Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads
#6Never forget: causation does not necessarily imply correlation
Not sure if on purpose, but think you got that the wrong way around.
Re: Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads
#7Never forget: causation does not necessarily imply correlation
Did you accidentally reverse the arrow? Or is there a smart joke sailing over my head?
Re: Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads
#8Link to paper:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797617741719
Some analysis (source of link): https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
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#9I wonder if it's possible that men and women, on average, have differing criteria for choosing careers, and artificially forcing the distributions towards the middle might do more harm than good.
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#10Too many political article today on HN.
This, code of conduct, fake news, peter theil ect