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Exactly my experience

- Elementary school roughly 50% of girls

- High School / Vocational school (electronic engineering) 0% of girls

- University 1 girl in the class of 50, so 2% of girls.

Thus nobody can expect to have 50% of girls at the job life, when high school and college were complete sausage party.

On the other hand, things like teaching (pedagogic universities) and nursing (medical schools) are almost always only girls.



I feel that only reason tech is called out is that it is seen as clean and very high paying thus desirable field.

As there is lot less discussion of more traditional gendered-fields from construction, war, nursing and so on.




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