Furthermore, it isn't a given that the lack of women in tech is due to society discouraging women from entering the field.
It's not a given that cultural bias is the only factor, but it is a given that there is a cultural bias against women going into STEM fields. It feels like that trend is changing (I certainly am seeing more female applicants at college job fairs), but it seems that we still have a ways to go before it's erased entirely (if it ever will be).
So it's possible that without any cultural bias at all that fewer women than men would choose a STEM career, but we should still strive to lower that barrier to entry so any woman that wants to go into a STEM field is able to do so freely and without discouragement (whether explicit or implicit)
Why is there an assumption that women are being discouraged to enter STEM fields rather than men being pushed? Lets imagine if there were a social culture that rewarded men who took high income jobs, discourage men who selected their occupation based on interest, and allowed women full freedom to choose any occupation. How similar to our world would that look like?
A find it a good question to ask is how society rewards people based on their decisions. Women that follow gender norms in their career choice, and women that don't. Men that follow gender norms, and men that don't. Using social status as a metric, who reaps the best rewards and who get punished the most?
Women are actually more equally represented (or over represented in the case of medical sciences) in STEM fields, the discrepancy in computer sciences is where the unequal representation is most apparent.
Furthermore, it isn't a given that the lack of women in tech is due to society discouraging women from entering the field.
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