that's not true at all. there are endless scholarships for universities and no limits placed on them in high school. I know for a fact that when my brother tried to get into vet school, his grades had to be significantly higher than a woman's grades to get in. Maybe you don't consider medicine to science fields. but he ended up in plant research working for companies similar to Monsanto. And he has told me that about half of the researchers he works with are women. so....
That is true.
Women only make up about 17% of STEM degrees, which would be why it's likely easier for them to get into a school, schools want them, and there are less applicants. Medicine technically isn't included in STEM, but women are still underrepresented in it, albeit better than the STEM fields, about 34%. There are places where there are more women of course, but overall it's very lacking. There's probably about 30 women in my lab building and over 200 men.
I don't want to badger you too much, but I've got questions. first off who is WE. do you mean men? or do you mean your family, or the state of california? I don't know. I don't see it. I saw that in the 70's when I was growing up. but i don't see that now. Anywhere! My daughter was pressured to go to college while she was in high school. I never heard anyone pressure her to stay home. She actually has put that pressure on herself now that her son is born.
My wife went to school to teach and she did teach for a while but she wanted to stay home and raise our children by herself rather than pay daycare workers to do it. Personally, I was thinking at the time, we would have a lot more money if she taught school. But I let her do what she wanted, and in the end, I guess if I admit it, she was probably right to do it.
but I don't see anyone, anywhere trying to keep women home and begging for an allowance from a male breadwinner. I don't know where you are getting that.
Society in general, the traditional gender roles say that men go out and work, go to war, build stuff and do man shit, women (for the most part) are taught more to stay home, cook, clean, etc, be the stay at home mom.
We've gotten better in the sense that we tell everyone they should go to college and get their degree, but what about afterwards? How do we, as a society, view a man who is single into his 30's? 40's? What about women? Single men are seen are eligible bachelors, women are seen as desperate and unwanted, they need to find someone fast and settled down or be 'doomed' to a life alone.
Some people choose to stay at home and raise children, or not go to college, and that's just fine. I don't have issues with that. In terms of pressure it's not people actually going up and screaming to settle down and pop out kids, but you look at what society in general expects, that's what happens. Again, look back at being a child, we target the vacuum cleaners and kitchen stuff to girls. Boys go to wood shop, women go to Home Ec, etc. If that is what someone wants to do, then great, but I don't think it's good to try to direct people into those molds though, because there could be some amazing fathers who think they need to be out working, or some amazing engineers/scientists/businesswomen etc who think they need to be at home taking care of the kids.
I know guys who wanted to be dad's their entire lives and they're wonderful at it, I have a friend who if you ask him what he is most proud of it's that he works hard enough so that his wife doesn't need to and can stay at home with his two boys. That's great, I'm proud of him, and I have nothing wrong with that. Obviously that's not what everyone wants to do though.
