STEM fields vs. gender studies comic - image

[bruce.desertrat]

What Rick and Toolmaker51 said x1000. I work at at a health sciences college (at that other one in AZ! :-P) and what happens when people see 'people like themselves' in a program, it becomes much more conducive for them to come into the field (and excel...we're one of the top rated programs in the country, with highly competitive admissions. Our faculty and student body are nearly equally split M/F, and I suspect this is one of the reasons we're one of the top rated programs).

This is hurdle that many other disciplines haven't yet seemed to master which is simply dumb, imo...why drive away 50% of the talent?

And as far as 'Art' being involved, just what do people think industrial and UI design is, other than applied Art? Steve Jobs famously obsessed over the smallest details of the user interfaces of Apple devices and software, and it shows (to this day..as I'm acutely aware having to work with both sides of the Big Computer Divide all day :-)