The feminist myth on why women don't go into STEM is in its last desperate stage. The myth is close to dying.
The myth, which was true decades ago, is that the reason women don't go into STEM, or stay in STEM, is because of male sexism and male chauvinism.
Male chauvinism did keep women out decades ago. My uncle was a doctor who was deadset against women becoming doctors. My housemate had to fight sexism in her vet med graduate school in 1976.
But the argument today is that male engineers are more sexist than male engineers, and that male food vets are more sexist than small animal vets - - and there is absolutely no evidence of that.
In fact, the head of the veterinary school association has written me several times about the shortage of food animal vets, and never once mentioned male chauvinism as a possible reason. Today women choose NOT to go into engineering and food animal vet med and computer science. My brilliant co-author Julie Coates has come up with substantial irrefutable evidence on that.
At the Gogebic County Fair in Michigan this month. The probability of this girl becoming a vet is good. Some 74% of vet students are female. The probability of this girl becoming a food animal vet, even though she raised pigs as a girl, is very small. Only 1 in 13 female vet students choose to become food animal vets. Male vet students are 4 times more likely to choose to be a food animal vet.
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