Why are women not going into S.T.E.M fields as much as men.

Issue is you either make money with your brain or your hands. If you're clever - tech/STEM/lawyer/investment banker etc is the way to go. If not the best way to make decent money is by doing skilled work with your hands - as you say oil rigs etc. Tough work, you get your hands dirty and it might even be dangerous. But the money's good.

Women don't seem keen on those jobs, which is a choice issue.

We'd also consider women like to have time off to have kids. Clearly while they're away the world has moved on so they might lose ground in the workplace. Exactly the same as if a guy took 6 months to travel the world, fair play to him but the world will have moved on while he was away. He'd obviously expect/plan for that.

Reality is women want equality in rewards but not equality in effort.

I watched a program that was interviewing random men and women.

They asked this question " which job would you prefer? A job in the
sewers making 100k per year? or a job in a beautiful high rise making
minimum wage?
Does anyone need to know how they answered? It was 100% for men
in sewers, and 100% for women making minimum wage.

But we are supposed to pretend that men and women are the same.

During my divorce I fired as many attorneys as I hired. My first was a woman lawyer that I thought would work well for me. Pfft.

On her Facebook page she was celebrating the month of the woman and women's accomplishments, which are a joke. Women only sleep well because they are protected by men, in houses built by men, with electricity provided by men, and water provided by men, and drive to shopping malls in cars built by men, fuelled by gasoline refined by men from oil drilled for by men. Remove men from earth and women would rejoice until seconds later when the lights went out, and they'd mostly be dead in a week.

I can tell you why I’m not….. I’m married and don’t wanna work with a bunch of horny men! Women that work in those fields are constantly getting hit on.

Why do you care?

We effing DO. How do YOU feel? Of wait you already said it.

They (we) want the same kind of respect as the guys and your post shows we're all a loooong way from that.

Its not just about paid work. I won't say more, I shouldn't have to spell it out. Libraries already exist on this one subject.

bye!

The way this is framed screams privilege. To work a job you actually have to be hired.

The fact this escapes your notice speaks to someone who coasted through life with no struggles.

are they banned from doing these jobs? [i]that's[/i] the point to equality; having equal opportunity to work

https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/the-great-science-hoax-when-stem-doesn-t-stack-up-20211011-p58z08

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-stem-wont-make-us-successful/2015/03/26/5f4604f2-d2a5-11e4-ab77-9646eea6a4c7_story.html