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Misleading diagram in Gender imbalance in STEM fields section?

I find the diagram of the Gender imbalance in STEM fields section very misleading:

No absolute reference: No perspective is given relatively to the 100% of the population. STEM in itself is apparently a rare occupation and it would be more accurate to also show that part of the reality.
Old data: Numbers are from 2015. That is 9 years ago and the proportion of women is slowly but steadily growing in all STEM fields, reducing the gap. We had already reached about 25% of women working in STEM in 2022 and probably slightly more more now. There are even 30% of women among the students.
Partial and most extreme data only: Only the ICT is shown, a field in which the women to men ratio has consistently been among the (if not the) most dramatically different.
Section VS graph scope mismatch: The title of the section focuses on STEM in general (in which there is roughly 25% women and 75% men). The ratio shown in the diagram is 4.8% men vs 0.4% women. Relatively to each other, this gives 8.3333...% of women. Compared to the 25% ratio, that's 3 times less.
Focus on expectations and not on reality: The PISA diagram is about the expectations that students have for their career (Students who expect to work as ICT professionals, PISA 2015 Results. In percentage.), not their actual future occupation. Students (whether female or male) can fail, expectations can be disappointed (change in interest, will to raise a family instead of working etc.). This graph is more about self-confidence and guessing than factual observation of people's actual occupations.

Source: https://www.stemwomen.com/women-in-stem-statistics-progress-and-challenges

213.200.224.246 (talk) 09:38, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Though the section can be improived with more recent information, not sure if the link is a good source for this as it looks like a business. I am sure there are academic sources or government affiliated sources like UNESCO on stuff like this. Ramos1990 (talk) 10:05, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

yay!

What with all the anti-DEI and misogynist nonsense coming out of Washington and the scrubbing of websites etc., I was afraid Wikipedia would start getting "cleansed" too. Happy to see this article still here :) Bookgrrl ^holler/lookee here 03:08, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]