In schools and universities, girls tend to choose arts subjects, while boys choose science subjects. What is the reason? Should the trend be changed?

It commonly happens that in academic institutions, female

students

tend to choose arts subjects, while male

students

prefer to take interest in science. I will elaborate on a potential root cause and an alternative solution to drive the change of

this

condition. To commence with, it is widely believed that men are more capable of logical and scientific stuff than women.

This

opinion is being accepted by most of society

such

that teachers and parents persuade and sometimes force specific subjects to study based on their

gender

.

For example

, in Indonesia, most high school teachers would encourage male

students

to take a major in engineering, while introducing female

students

to artsier majors

such

as language, anthropology, and so on. At the same time parents continuously pressure their son to major in physic or mathematic, while persuading their daughter to avoid those majors.

Although

society thinks that

this

is normal,

this

trend should be changed. One of the reasons is

gender

equality is one of the utmost important factors for the overall development of the nation. Females should be encouraged and facilitated to choose the paths that they desired, the same goes for males.

This

change can be driven by the education institution itself by opening up the same opportunity for both males and females to study in certain majors.

For instance

, most well-known universities consider the men and women student ratio as one of the success measurements.

Hence

, they start to build awareness that having female

students

in engineering or male

students

in the language would add value. By way of conclusion, I believe that

gender

equality is a crucial factor for country development.

Hence

, both males and females should be given equal opportunity and freedom to choose their subjects. The change can be driven by the academic institution itself.

This

trend in the end would bring more benefits than restricting a subject based on

gender

.