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So what's the answer? How do you get girls to be interested in STEM jobs? How do you get boys to be interested in teaching and nursing?
I've personally tried to involve my daughter in the tinkering activities I do, and she will respond in order to spend a little time with me, but as we get into whatever the project is, she wanders off to go read a book. Maybe I'm doing or saying something unconsciously that turns her away, or maybe she just has no interest in this stuff. And my boy is the opposite. He starts and finished his own projects without me. He devours this stuff.
It's a small sample size, but something is grabbing his attention and not hers.
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