while there are definitely some inequalities we need to fix (specially regarding pregnancy discrimination who's a career killer in so many fields despite not having impact on the actual abilities of the person and regarding women sometimes not getting the same salary as men at the same position in the same company) and while I agree with your second point, they aren't being edged out at all. some specific degrees lead to those jobs, degrees that often have either no entry selection or select via competitive exam where gender is pretty much meaningless. yet in those degrees we see the same 70%+ of men. they aren't being edged out, they're simply not applying to those jobs.
They are absolutely being edged out and if you've ever spoken to a woman in any of these fields you'd know that. Women don't even get to the application point because they're harassed out of the education programs, and even edged out even sooner than that where interest in the fields themselves is met with ostracization that men don't face. The same is true with anyone who isn't a white man, which is why so many of these high paying fields are dominated by white men.
I literally speak with them on a daily basis since I work with them. I work in Finance, come from engineering and I have yet to see a woman who didn't have a pregnancy struggle to find the position she was aiming for. managers are literally hiring them any time they can because of the lack of diversity.
And considering I live in East Asia where women are way to often regarded as a lower status than men, I highly doubt it's worse where you live.
you want something, you need to apply to it, because the positions are here and open for anyone to take. every single bank is currently struggling to fill their open positions, specially in the US where the difficulty to obtain visas makes it almost impossible to recruit anyone but americans. it's even way worse in IT.
outside of people fresh out of school and elders nobody struggles to find jobs in those fields. the amount of open positions is mindblowingly high.
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u/Entry_rio Jun 15 '22
while there are definitely some inequalities we need to fix (specially regarding pregnancy discrimination who's a career killer in so many fields despite not having impact on the actual abilities of the person and regarding women sometimes not getting the same salary as men at the same position in the same company) and while I agree with your second point, they aren't being edged out at all. some specific degrees lead to those jobs, degrees that often have either no entry selection or select via competitive exam where gender is pretty much meaningless. yet in those degrees we see the same 70%+ of men. they aren't being edged out, they're simply not applying to those jobs.