Open the gates is the best way to get underpaid! (Score 1)

This is just reality: highly skilled STEMs are now getting pristine rewards on par with other skilled professionals, like medical doctors, lawyers etc... For this situation to stay this way, STEM should regroup and create their own professional association which requires qualification exams etc... This will ensure that all STEMs are judged on established standard of qualifications and not from some dubious Ph.D. (or else) obtained from lesser known universities (e.g. from China and India). This is not too far stretched. Indeed many companies now are putting coding-exams in their hiring policies because they got burned too frequently. STEMs in managerial positions should hire only STEM professionals that have qualified to the "STEM exams". A very good read: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110420/full/472276a.html "To Paula Stephan, an economist at Georgia State University in Atlanta who studies PhD trends, it is "scandalous" that US politicians continue to speak of a PhD shortage. ..."