Post #1399864
2022-12-27 23:50 UTC
I finished @aartiramkrishna 's @SeaGL talk, "The Leaky Pipeline" ( https://seagl.org/archive/2022/the-leaky-pipeline ) and think that it could serve as an example of how any minoritized group is dropped from the pipeline, even though many professions (like my own) desperately want to be seen as not contributing to the problem, even though they do things like mount structural barriers and create norms that discourage the participation of the few minoritized people who manage to persist.
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@TheyOfHIShirts@glammr.us 2022-12-27 23:58
I had one quibble, that the 74%-0.4% comparison (74% of girls are interested in STEM topics, 0.4% of women choose computer science as a degree) is a little apples to oranges, but if we changed the 0.4% number to include all women STEM undergraduate degrees, I feel we might move the percentage up...one, maybe two percentage points at the most optimistic and inclusive definition? xkcd 385 ( https://xkcd.com/385/ ) still applies here, and how.