[C19fan]

I am big fan of the Victorian Era. It is a riot the feminist Left is making that era's view of women fashionable again whether affirmative consent or this wacko thinking STEM is too competitive and hard for women. The Ph.D. candidate thinks there should be gender/race based grading in STEM.

[Myrddin]

My company is 90% staffed with STEM employees. Lots of master's and PhD (30%). There is a filtering that occurs after you get hired and work a project or two. Your reputation for being a performing asset to the team results in getting recruited to new contracts. If you're not a performer, you lose "coverage" i.e. you are an employee without a revenue producing contract. If you don't fix that fairly quickly, the HR department sends you notice that your arrangements are coming to an end very soon.

The idea that making STEM classes less competitive so that you can graduate more people with less capability is a wrong headed approach. It is better to fail in school and find a more suitable path, then to exit with a degree and a reputation for not performing. That millstone will be hard to shed. My current development team is about equally divided male/female. All are great performers. Senior staff with great track records that have survived the filtering process.

[jonascord]

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[theBuckwheat]

Calculus, upon which much of what is “STEM” is based is not competitive at all. Either you can use it competently or you cannot.

STEM is anti-feminist because you can not yammer, spin, nag or bully your way to success.

“There is no try, only do.” —Yoda

[Grampa Dave]

This bs can be another blow against the 4-5 year college programs as they become PC safe places for future failures.

Companies and the CIA/NSA/FBI/? are going to Math Olympiads and Odyssey of the Mind events to identify the young people they want to work for them.

Those chosen become paid interns and often have professors visiting them for their so called upper education.

[DoughtyOne]

[Grampa Dave]

More on new math being pushed even in STEM courses!