Not just Muslim countries but also, prominently, India, and parts of East Asia.
An obvious hypothesis: in a poorer country it’s super important to get a decently paying career, so young people of both sexes gravitate towards engineering, as a guaranteed solid paycheque (plus solid potential for emigration to a richer country) whether they’re particularly interested or not.
In richer countries, there’s less pressure to be quite so practical with your career choices, so people have a stronger tendency to do what they’re interested in, rather than what will pay the most.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 19.5 ms ] threadAn obvious hypothesis: in a poorer country it’s super important to get a decently paying career, so young people of both sexes gravitate towards engineering, as a guaranteed solid paycheque (plus solid potential for emigration to a richer country) whether they’re particularly interested or not.
In richer countries, there’s less pressure to be quite so practical with your career choices, so people have a stronger tendency to do what they’re interested in, rather than what will pay the most.
What's not covered in the article is whether Muslim countries have more women engineers or fewer male engineers (per capita).
Teenagers in India are very different from the us,parents control a lot of their life.