The GEC report also highlighted the way gender stereotypes, such as the notion that men should study the sciences while women study the arts, can have long-lasting effects on gender segregation in the workplace.
I wonder about this. Over the last ten years or so, I have been mostly teaching students for the college entrance exam essay. They go mostly to national academic high schools, which are segregated by sex. I noticed girls and boys seem about equally divided when it comes to studying the sciences (they have to choose between arts and science tracks in Grade 11). Most don’t report any familial pressure to consider arts- I wonder if that is because sciences have traditionally paid more, and families encourage girls as well as boys to go for the high-paying jobs?