Case in point, men and women are almost 50/50 in STEM careers around Eastern Europe due to the USSR
around eastern europe -> contries in eastern europe that dont support this claim dont count obviously
due to ussr -> ussr not mentioned in citation
Anyway, this is a way too broad statistic that clumps together tons of fields which are actually pretty split. Basically statistics gerrymandering.
This would imply the X axis has to be inverted too…