An alternative argument for why women leave STEM
Maybe I&#x27;m missing something, but this seems to be typical sexism: there&#x27;s work at work which is paid, and work at home which is not. Men do little enough of the latter, that doing the paid work isn&#x27;t a problem. Women do such a large part of the former, that they feel the need to chose between which part get done.<p>Sure, the positive way to change this, is to reduce the unpaid work (child care professionals are paid, cleaners are paid etc) - that is, to acknowledge it as work that needs to be done, is productive, and should be part of what society rewards&#x2F;share resources to get done.<p>But the equal rights &#x2F; equal opportunity path indicates that we also need a (bigger) culture shift so that the unpaid work of running a home is more equally divided.