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many university physical science labs physically resemble this robotics laboratory at Leeds University getting more women to study and pursue careers in STEM subjects than his science technology engineering and maths as in recent years crept up the political agenda looking at undergraduate enrollments in 2016-17 of students whose principal subject was physics just twenty-two point one percent were women and in computer science just 17.2% in engineering and technology seventeen point six percent and in maths just thirty seven point one percent a study published today by researchers in Leeds and Missouri suggests that the solutions may not be straightforward people have long thought that the more gender-equal a country is the more similar boys and girls and many women will become in they're sort of like interests and occupational choices if you ask the average person in the street well do you think that there are more women going into stem in say Finn and a Norway than in Turkey or Algeria people will say well obviously Finland or Norway because we know those are very gender equal countries and we see the opposite so that is very paradoxical finding and that that is why we call this study the gender equality paradox the researchers took the level of gender equality as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap index and plotted it against the proportion of women graduates in STEM subjects no countries were high on both measures countries like Finland Norway and Sweden measured high for gender equality but low for women stem graduates for countries like UAE Geneva Turkey and Algeria it was the other way round this by the way is the UK what the study doesn't do is come up with any firm answers as to why this should be although the researchers do have a theory those satisfaction is higher in gender equal countries and we think that when life satisfaction is higher and when people feel more secure in a society they feel they can do what I really like they are less driven by economic interests but there are other explanations offered the women in less gender equal societies haven't been excluded from science in the past unlike women in Europe and North America the only female Fields Medal winner the Fields Medal is like the Nobel Prize of mathematics was mary amir sakhani an iranian-american woman and i don't think that's a coincidence that she happened to be Iranian Iran has very good rates of women in science they don't have the same stereotypes for some reason as Europe does so I think really this this reflects a historical fact this long legacy of exclusion is the reason why in Europe we still see this lag you know women catching up we're still working so hard to change the culture because for so long the culture was so against women however the gap in so-called STEM subjects only tells us part of the story about women studying science subjects at university there are plenty of subjects with big gender gaps that favor women of undergraduates whose principal subject is medicine fifty five point two percent of women in dentistry it's 62 percent in biological sciences it's 63 percent in veterinary science it's seventy seven point three percent and in nursing its 90.5% indeed taken as a whole women account for fifty one point five percent over half of science undergraduate enrollments most subjects at university are dominated by by women there are very few areas we mentioned engineering and computer science that are dominated by men but the gaps there are actually much much smaller than for things like nursing teaching Social Work education studies and so on and I think it'd be much better if we concentrated in getting gender equality across all subject areas rather than just focusing narrowly on stem so why do men and women often end up on different career paths why are some occupations so dominated by one gender the answers it appears are far from straightforward