Mel, indeed. 90%+ of psychology graduates (to take but one of many examples) in the UK have been female for years, this of course isn't a problem, let alone one needing to be addressed.
William Collins (formerly an engineer and physicist, a Cambridge Uni graduate almost 50 years ago) on his amazing blog "The Ilustrated Empathy Gap" empathygap.uk points to relentless initiatives to drive up the proportion of women in STEM subjects in higher education, although if we add medicine to give STEMM, a majority of graduates have been women for years. There are few subjects in which men are the majority and those are the most intellectually demanding ones e.g. physics, maths. Courses have been dumbed-down to enable more women to study them (e.g. physics).
Women have been 70%+ of graduating medical students in the UK for 50 years. In the 1970s Dr Vernon Coleman - the first 'TV doctor' in the UK - was warning that the drive for more female doctors would end up in an inevitable crisis for the NHS because of women's lesser work ethic and sense of duty. All that he predicted has come to pass.
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