Share of women in US government STEM jobs has been static at 30% since 2005 and is too low. A call for more female supervisors! Really!

This nonsense was just published by Chemistry World! Propaganda and demagoguery!

This is cherry picking in the name of gender equality to obtain high paying jobs for women in the federal government!

It is a fact that women choose other jobs than men etc. etc.! How many women work e.g. in construction or mining? Are women not underrepresented in those industries as well? 

Let men do the dirty work, right! Men watch out in the battle of the sexes!

"Women are underrepresented [????] in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) fields at US federal agencies and they quit those jobs at a disproportionately high rate, according to new analysis from researchers at the University of Georgia. This study is the first of its kind to systematically examine the number of women in Stem jobs in the US government. The team also discovered that the one factor that did appear to improve the number of women in such jobs is more female supervisors.

The team analysed employment at all 15 cabinet-level US departments, as wells as Nasa and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), between 2005 and 2018. ..."

From the abstract:

"This article provides an assessment of the employment of women in STEM occupations in the U.S. federal government. Women are underrepresented [????] in STEM fields in the U.S. federal service, but their levels of employment vary markedly between departments and agencies. Women also quit federal STEM jobs in disproportionately large numbers, compared with men, and compared with women in other professions, and they resign at varying rates depending on the department or agency. We examine the impact of the presence of women in STEM supervisory positions on these patterns using a two-staged instrumental variable model. Our findings suggest that larger proportions of women in supervisory positions in STEM fields may help to produce higher levels of employment of women, but the presence of women as STEM supervisors has no observable impact on the rate at which women quit STEM jobs."

Share of women in US government Stem jobs has been static since 2005 | News | Chemistry World

Study shows need for more female STEM leadership (primary news source)

Agency Variation in the Employment of Women in U.S. Federal STEM Jobs: The Impact of Female Supervisors (no public access)