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Originally Posted by jade408

Why don't you watch or read Hidden Figures. Women didn't get access to most of the jobs!

What "Hidden Figures"?
Are you saying that the companies will prefer to not to fill vacancies than hiring a woman for the opened position?
Sorry, I find that hard to believe, because THERE IS A shortage of STEM specialists in the US, no matter what your calculations are here;

The US is graduating about 300,000 STEM people per year. So lets say that just 25% are women, then that means that 75k new grads every year. That looks like a pretty good number of options to me. And entry level means people within their 1st 3-4 years of work, so that gives them a pool of 225-300k people to pull from.

Data check: U.S. producing more STEM graduates even without proposed initiatives | Science | AAAS

See, the article above doesn't address the issue that STEM includes a variety of studies - not just MATH/ PHYSICS/ENGINEERING, where men excel naturally; but other studies, such as biology for example, where women can pull though as well. So this creates surplus of specialists in some STEM areas, but there is still shortage in the areas where women can't keep up with men.
But this article explains it rather well;

"Over the past decade, there has been substantial concern regarding the adequacy of the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce. Opposing sides paint a polarizing picture: Is there a “STEM crisis” or a “STEM surplus”? Our answer is that there are both.

STEM covers a diverse array of occupations, from mathematicians to biomedical researchers, and at degree levels from bachelor to Ph.D. Some occupations have a shortage of qualified talent, such as nuclear and electrical engineering Ph.D.’s who are U.S. citizens; in other areas, such as biology Ph.D.’s aiming to become professors, there is a surplus."



So since there are not too many men capable in math/physics to begin with, and there are obviously enough of job opportunities say in electrical engineering, do you really think that the companies would prefer to get by without an engineer, than to hire a qualified woman?
And if the answer is "no," then what "HIDDEN FIGURES" are we talking about?