That&#x27;s a good point actually. I live in the UAE, and whenever I attend a college-level engineering or programming competition, I notice that there is always a good ratio of male to female participants - almost 3:1 in some cases.<p>Furthermore, in my gender segregated university, the ratio of male to female EE students is 1:1. The ratio for IT students is, by my estimates, 1:5 at the very least. Yes, 5 females for every male.<p>Based on what I&#x27;ve heard and read online, this is quite different from how it is in the US specifically, where gender inequality in STEM fields is a big deal. Here, and in other Arab countries from my experience, it&#x27;s quite the opposite: more women take the STEM path than men do!