Women In STEM Related Careers

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What type of jobs do the majority of women hold today? Definitely not in the STEM related careers. Women should hold more important jobs in the fields of engineering, science, mathematics, and technology, rather than inessential jobs such as; secretaries, office assistants, and fashion models. This should not be. Women should be there lifting the heavy objects, discovering the cure for cancer, inventing something new. Women should no longer be in the minority that pursue STEM related careers, but become the majority in this area; women are extremely mature, are on the same intellectual plane as men, and they sacrifice a lot to contribute to the world.
Maturity. What does this word actually suggest? Is it that a person that is mature can work under pressure and be serious at times that call to be serious, or does it mean
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1,000. Who would have answered faster a girl or a boy? Most likely a girl. Along with being more mature, women are becoming increasingly more intelligent than men. According to James Flynn, an IQ expert, who says that “…women now outscore men on intelligence tests in Europe, the US, Canada, and New Zealand—and women scored higher everywhere”. This means tht while men had the upper hand in the intullectual race for a while, women, who adapt more quickly than men have finally showed their true colors, which is their superority in all matters that involve the brain. Futhermore, in the column called “ Women Are Smarter Than Men’’, it mentions that “a 2008 Higher Education Policy Institute report said women are not only more likely to get into better schools, they´re also more likely to outperform the men once there’’. See even the school systems admit that women have finally caught uo and surpassed men’s intullectual level due to the freedom they have these days. Why are people even considering that men are still more knowlegable than women, when the facts show it all, women have the game in their hands

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