That's not the point though.
You can't force people to do things. Women already want to be scientists.
And women already are scientists - and engineers. I've worked with a dozen or more - I wasn't keeping count though.
Perhaps they would be a good place to start when trying to get more women involved in STEM careers.
And that is the strangest thing, we don't seem to hear much about women who are already in STEM, only how men are keeping them out of STEM.
Want a role model for women in STEM? Ty Hedy Lamarr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
Here is the co-inventor of spread spectrum radio and a few other things, extremely intelligent, and if it important to anyone, stunningly beautiful.
But there are obviously many more. Why don't we hear more about them?
STEM, especially for the Scientists and engineers is not a career for the easily dissuaded. You are studying while the MBA and liberal arts students are partying - that's not hype.
And to claim that some woman has been so negatively affected by a photo of a playboy model's face, or a sophmoric joke about a dongle that it causes rejection as a career is as sensible as saying looking at a Barbie doll caused a girl to become bulemic. A scientist would tell you that the eating problem already existed, and at worst, the Barbie Doll, was merely a fixation.
In the end, the women in STEM movement does women a terrible disservice, painting them as weak creatures, all too easily dissuaded from careers that they would otherwise excel in, just by sexual references or distractions.