>>11583739IMO pursuit of higher education is generally self motivated and outside of relatively extreme cases (not really relevant to 1st world) unaffected by external influences.
the reasons why POC and women aren't as common as they are in the normal population has may reasons that are generally hard to artificially affect
usually for POC they are of lower class due to immigration / generational things, so unless you change the entire social behavior of the lower class you can't affect that much. attempting it is not recommended since affecting a certain group's culture is chaotic and requires a lot of power that no one should have.
I can't really see why women aren't as interested in STEM as men. it is easy to assume it's all social, but the correlation is too much and the cultural influence just doesn't seem to fit. I'm honestly thinking it might be biological, so their capabilities are more in line with memorization and such rather than analytical thinking. but then again, females seem to do pretty well in math competitions at earlier ages, even after puberty, so it might be social. I really don't know about that one, I welcome having more women in STEM, but forcing it as we are is really distasteful and that isn't without it's consequences.
