Talk about making me so mad! The above is gratuitously insulting to non-STEM people. I admire people with math skills greatly, and I’m happy the poster’s daughters are engineers if they are happy being engineers. But “engineer” is not a magical profession as far as I am concerned. I know engineers for whom I have enormous respect, and engineers who are limited and rigid. The highest goal of education is not to turn everyone into a techie because that’s better than anything else.
Believe it or not, people can be quite successful, financially and otherwise, and contribute significantly to society, without being math-centric. My spouse has led huge organizations and managed 10-figure budgets (and more) with the math skills of a fifth or sixth grader, and not an advanced one. She has demonstrably changed the world in some meaningful respects. It’s not remotely true that her sex has mattered more than her skills. People in careers like software or engineering or medicine worked for her.