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Is electronics a man's hobby?
wraper:
--- Quote from: janoc on September 13, 2020, 07:48:02 pm ---If you bring your kids up with your daughter being shown only "girly" or "appropriate for girls" stuff and your boy only "the boy stuff", no wonder. Ever been to a typical toy store? With aisles clearly delimited by color or boy/girl labels, with "boy side" having Legos, cars, guns (!) and "girl side" only dolls, princess outfits, make up and such? Also the peer pressure at later age when anything science/engineering is considered "nerdy" and "uncool" isn't helping.
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When given a very free opportunity of what to do, like in Norway. Division of interests between men and women becomes even more prominent. Women simply like to be social but men tend to be absorbed with things. Becomes especially obvious when task requires somewhat extreme mentality like engineering.
SpecialK:
It's not a yes/no question. It's a continuum. It's generally a man's hobby but what does that imply?
I think that it's more nuture than nature. Given the same exposure and opportunities women would probably take up electronics at a similar rate. I don't think that there's any admission requirements that would keep females out of these programs, but I think there is probably social pressures that keep them away. It's a damn shame.
I should really be trying to give my daughters some electronics experience. Ages 14 and 16. They haven't shown any interest, so it would probably be pushing a boulder up a hill.
I wonder if the perceived danger of electricity keeps women away. They tend to have better judgement as far as risk is concerned.
wraper:
cdev:
This is from The Diplomat
https://thediplomat.com/2018/03/chinas-forced-labor-problem/
Forced Electronics Internships
Other industries also rely on a cheap and pliable workforce amounting to forced labor by the exploitation of a large numbers of student interns from vocational schools. While company-based learning is supposed to be a crucial component of vocational educations, students are forced to accept internships in manufacturing industries — irrespective of the relevance of the industry for the students’ education — under the threat of failing to graduate if they decline.
Whereas such company-school partnerships have been practiced for many years, international attention was raised only in 2012, when forced internships were linked to global electronics supply chains.
“Vocational school students are sent to electronics factories, such as Foxconn and Quanta, to work as ordinary production line workers in the name of compulsory internship. Many, we met, were studying subjects irrelevant to electronics and told about threats by schools that they will not graduate from schools, if they refuse the internships,” says Michael Ma, project manager for Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM), a Hong Kong based nonprofit behind several investigations.
New cases continue to be documented in electronics factories supplying brands like Apple, Sony, Dell, HP, and Acer. The practice seems unchanged by schools and electronics manufacturers, while brands dodge the issue.
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--- Quote from: Wilksey on September 13, 2020, 06:00:59 pm ---However, if you go into an assembly house there are a ton of middle aged women cranking away on assembly / soldering, maybe it's just the designing they are not a fan of?! :-//
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That's just a shitty job where they were taught to do a single operation with little understanding of what they are actually doing.
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EEVblog:
No good is going to come from this thread. Locked.
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