Ask Women on Sidechat | I always hear about the lack of women in STEM fields, but I don’t see it. I’m a Marine Bio major, and our program is only ~20% male. Why is there such a disparity between Marine Bio and the rest of STEM, in terms of a gender gap?

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I always hear about the lack of women in STEM fields, but I don’t see it. I’m a Marine Bio major, and our program is only ~20% male. Why is there such a disparity between Marine Bio and the rest of STEM, in terms of a gender gap?

Anonymous 3w

It’s like this in most stem fields for a while now. Women have been graduating as the majority of doctors and phds for like 30 years atp. My classes are like 80 percent women or more

Anonymous 3w

Science fields are becoming predominantly female, but there is still a gap in Engineering/Technology. I’m in an engineering class of 60 students and only 7 women

Anonymous 3w

Part of it comes from women tend to gravitate towards more nurturing roles, such as marine bio or environmental science as a whole. While men tend to be more interested in engineering or technical portions. It's also a degree that heavily accepts women and there's less of a pressure to excel over men to prove yourself. It's similar in a general bio degree as well. Not saying that's it's right or wrong, but that's just my interpretation of why.

Anonymous 3w

I’m in one of those rare fields that’s predominantly women💞

Anonymous 3w

There’s just certain fields where there’s more women. Veterinary medicine is also like that.

Anonymous 3w

Because marine bio is more attractive to women than something like petroleum or mining engineering is

Anonymous 3w

Theres an increase in women studying STEM. There is still a massive disparity in the gender representation in professional STEM jobs. The glass ceiling is still there

Anonymous 3w

Im a forensic science major and its majority women. I want to say that part of it too is that a lot of companies choose men over women for the non women dominated. However there is a rise in women in stem fields now that we're allowed and seen worthy

Anonymous

#1 3w

I second this, except the first part is more expectation rather than gravitation

Anonymous

#9 3w

I had a very unfortunate wake-up call to this in my senior year at undergrad. I had a professor that would hire female students to do gruntwork in his lab saying they MIGHT be credited if they do a good enough job. Then hed fire them immediately after they finished the work and take the credit. He was extremely sexist and blamed modern societys problems on women having rights (i wish i was kidding). And the worst part is, hes nowhere NEAR alone in this practice.

Anonymous

#9 3w

😬what the fuck. That’s good info as a stem girl, tysm

Anonymous

#5 3w

Its actually really common for men to take the work of women. Back when we had little rights, men would take their wives books, scientific discoveries, concepts, etc as their own. Or women would pretend be men, and still do, to be taken seriously

Anonymous

#8 3w

I would commit a crime if I had a man do that to me

Anonymous

#5 3w

Oh i fully wanted to. Instead i warned everyone i knew/in my class about him and filed a civil rights report against him with the school. Unfortunately hes tenured and when i spoke to the chairman of the bio dept it sounded like they already knew he did this (and didnt care).