Interesting. An extract:
“Nevertheless, sex differences in vocational interests and preferences exist, and they are rooted in biology. Consequently, incentives and other social engineering schemes will only go so far in changing proportional representations in vocations. In one survey of more than 45,000 high school students in Australia, males ranked psychology as their 17th most popular career choice, whereas females ranked psychology as their top choice. [J4MB emphasis] Moreover, males rated six different engineering fields in their top 20 careers, whereas females did not rate a single engineering field in their top 20. Thus, neither STEM nor psychology should be expected to exhibit equal male and female representations.”
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Justice for Men & Boys 
As he points out there are no initiatives to encourage males into Psychology, as is common in programmes supposedly to encourage “diversity”. Even though it make more sense in education that is linked to personal services where many “customers” may have a preference for their own sex to “open up” to. I’m interested that the overall programme to get more Girls to do STEM subjects has the objective to increase female “participation” in “education, careers, innovation and entrepreneurship”. It reveals the belief in entitlement. I suppose one could be said the participate in education as this is a form of service to the growing child. However “careers” aren’t a service they are built by achieving rather than just participating, even more so “innovation and entrepreneurship” which are high risk and require considerable effort and resilience. Participation in innovation or entrepreneurship makes no sense as it is the innovator or entrepreneur who takes the risks, drives forward and builds, far more than turn up with a paper qualification.
As we know what actually happens is that even where more females get into STEM there is high attrition in the workplace with a high number either choosing the least challenging roles or leaving the occupation altogether. Veterinary science is a good example where a rapid rise in female “participation” has left a shortage of “country vets” serving farming communities and a glut of pet vets in Cities and Towns. It is by the way interesting that the very well renumerated “medical” is left out of “STEM” for if it were STEMM there would not be such an “imbalance” in favour of males.
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