I tend to agree with this. For whatever reason, girls just don&#x27;t like the work.  When I stated studying, the ratio was 50:50 split.  By graduation time, it was down to 80:20 as he girls transferred into different courses or dropped out.  I was friends with many - as they changed or dropped out they all said they don&#x27;t like the subject matter or the type of work.<p>By the time we all started working, it was further down to 90:10.  My office recruited a lot of female grads, we had a female department head who positively discriminated.  One of my first mentors was female.  In that respect I think my early experience was atypical.<p>But they kept dropping out as time went on, transferring into different streams&#x2F;jobs.<p>There are some things that need to be done - particularly at helping parents understand their school age girls like of STEM - but ultimately I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s worth trying to socially engineer and entire field to be 50:50 when you&#x27;ll struggle to find that many women who want to study it, learn it and work in it for decades.