The Effects of Socialization on Career Aspirations

There's no single one that simple causal mechanism by which parents and society in general socialize children to leading to occupational segregation. There's a variety of methods as we've said, there's socioeconomic pressures, there's direct imitation and there's learning of sex type roles. It predisposes children to interest in different occupations according to their sex. In most STEM fields, some more than others, those are dramatic underrepresentation in women. And this underrepresentation has perpetuated in spite of the number of women saying feels like a law or business.