saw this in the comments.
I don't get it. Is she asking for men to give money to women? What? Why? Is this what the female empowerment group have been doing?
Surely there are several social reasons for the lack of females in different fields of engineering, mathematics and innovation, but I think the most major, and significant reason, is that they aren't interested. Or so it seems, anyhow. I remember reading some email/mail reply in a gaming magazine, where one of the magazine guys asked the question "How many girls build their own computers?" (On the subject of girls and gaming, I think. Not sure.)
I think the fact of the matter is, guys just generally have a higher amount of interest in the mechanics of things, like taking stuff apart and putting them back together. Has this ever been associated with females? Surely there are exceptions, but that's just it, exceptions. Most of the females do not seem to be interested in these things, so why be surprised when there aren't many females in those fields?
It might have something to do with the chemical makeup of the different groups of sex -- ie; Male chemical reward triggers are triggered when unscrewing/screwing things together/apart. Females have different reward triggers.
That doesn't mean that I think that progress shouldn't be made to make it more normal for females to go into those fields, but there seem to be so many other issues that are far more important, and would need to be solved before the problems related to such relatively superficial social standards and image can be fixed. Females can still go into the various fields, but might be looked down upon.
I've also heard that women get paid less than men, and this is very unfair -- it's probably related to the social image of females in engineering/mathematics on some level, but not directly.
I mean, assuming that they aren't interested in these fields, do they somehow deserve lower levels of pay in all other fields? Or even if they were interested? That's a different issue. It's probably related to the idea of women being the inferior sex, which is one of the most serious issues that need to be fixed before attempting to mainstream the idea of women going into engineering or whatever, in my opinion.
Anyhow, what if 90% of a group of people don't display any interest in a subject? Would we advance any further if we created a new standard where that group of people, who have no interest in it, were expected to participate in whatever it may be?
Boxing people into cliches and standards is a very bad thing for society in general when it's not true at all. But what if it's quite accurate? It's not that great then either, since there will be exceptions, and some people might look down on them.
Is the solution to break the assumed boundaries, or to simply get people to accept the exceptions? But how do we get to that point? Do we need to break the boundaries, even if it's an imaginary one because a group has no interest?
Standards, categorizing different groups of people into certain roles, or cliches, seems to have a soothing effect; it creates some sort of order out of the chaos.
It is, indeed, mostly the very negative, cruel and judgmental standards that should be removed, but this isn't a very negative/cruel one in my opinion.
Maybe the majority of females are interested in mechanics, engineering, and have the chemical reward tiers, but it's inhibited due to the, basically, forced standards in a modern society, so it would be required to remove those boundaries. Perhaps there would be more exceptions if this artificial barrier was removed, or perhaps it become normal.
The way we look at the different sexes today has been a part of humans since the dawn of man and woman, but could that simply be a consequence of the way things worked before? Just an assumed set of roles from the dawn of early man/woman? Men are typically physically bigger, which I assume was far more important back then. So, it's not hard to understand that, perhaps, men just took the role, and forced women into a role they might not want to be in.. Maybe they want to be hunters, maybe they want to bring home the meat. However, the fact that women produce children, and it takes 9 months, implies that it's unlikely.
Things have improved for women throughout the ages, and particularly in modern times, so it seems to be related at least. One thing is for sure, they deserve much more respect.
