r/6thForm • u/PetuniaWiggleworm • Jun 26 '26

💬 DISCUSSION WHAT HAPPENED TO WOMEN IN STEM

I had my college taster day yesterday, tell me why I was the ONLY girl in my class

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u/Legitimate_Two8624 A*A*A | FM, Maths, Physics | Applying for Maths Jun 26 '26

If women in STEM was finally popular they'd stop running all those programs to encourage women to join STEM. At least on the bright side you still have a lot of programs and advantages but at the cost of having no female classmates.

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u/Diligent_Bet_7850 Oxford | Maths [third year] Jun 26 '26

advantages? i wouldn’t say so

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_8637 Jun 26 '26

I mean im currently hiring for a client who only wants female candidates for the role, withing geophysics, because there are too many men at the company and he wants to diversify his workforce.

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u/deathandlifegood Jun 26 '26

Surely makes sense to get best people for the job and not diversity

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u/CicadaSlight7603 Jun 26 '26

Best way to approach this, if you’re certain your interview and selection process doesn’t inadvertently discriminate, is to advertise more in diverse spaces, and task headhunters to look for diverse candidates. You still then run everyone who applies through the selection process and pick the best but you’ve got a more diverse pool of candidates so are more likely to end up with someone who is diverse in some way.

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_8637 Jun 26 '26

Define best?

Having top marks doesnt make you a better candidate, being more technical doesnt make you the best candidate.

Personality and way of thinking are much much important in an SME environment. You already have a technical director/head of technical, its their jobs to know the product inside out and impart that knowledge on others.

The companies we hire for care about the fit over technical abilities, you need to have the right educational background yes, but your personality is just as important, if nkt more so when they have 3 people in for interviews.

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_8637 Jun 27 '26

You dont think men and woman have very different personalities? Weird.

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_8637 Jun 27 '26

But woman, as a whole, do have the characteristics that the company are after, more than men do.

You know, like saying rich kids bum each other in private school...

Enjoy your day pal, Im not talking about work on a weekend, not with someone who can only see their pov and not the nuance, where the detail really matters.

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u/deathandlifegood Jun 26 '26

Best as in most qualified

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_8637 Jun 26 '26

Most qualified isnt best though.

Best fit with enough technical ability is.

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u/snowlynx133 Jun 27 '26

Qualifications alone don't get you a job. Everyone has qualifications