The STEM Paradox: Why Are Muslim-Majority Countries Producing So Many Female Engineers?

[frankhammer]

I actually find it funny that it is in the countries that push the most for feminism, gender equality, gender interchangeability, that there is such a gap.

In the "west" women have many choices open in front of them. Why not choose a career in a field you enjoy rather than one the "government" dictates needs more of a particular "enter gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity".

Maybe women in these fields within these nations listed will empower other women too. Their family, government and private industry have invested much into them and if critical within their fields, naturally they receive more protection from the ignorant. The men who abuse, rape and kill because they can.

[Vigilance]

I believe most of these Muslim women in STEM are doing Biology or Nursing.

Also the real questions would be

- where do these Muslim Engineering colleges/universities rank internationally
- are these Muslim engineers in demand internationally?
- what are the innovations and inventions of these Muslim engineers?
- how competitive and difficult are their exams?

[JamesBond007]

I actually find it funny that it is in the countries that push the most for feminism, gender equality, gender interchangeability, that there is such a gap.

It's not like these Muslim women are winning the Turing Award or the Fields medal (the nobel prize is overrated and political not that they are winning those either). So, the fact that Muslims have more female STEM graduates means nothing.

[JamesBond007]

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Also the real questions would be

- where do these Muslim Engineering colleges/universities rank internationally
- are these Muslim engineers in demand internationally?
- what are the innovations and inventions of these Muslim engineers?
- how competitive and difficult are their exams?

exactly

[Ion Basescul]

Because the only hope they have to be treated like equal human beings is by escaping those countries. Usually engineering degrees are sought after when granting workers' visas.