God fucking damn it. I'm almost MATI. "Women, racialized people, and Indigenous" don't do physics because it's "hard", so... affirmative action is the answer here? That's not only untrue but it's fucking patronizing. This shit is why we end up with professors like Rhys McKinnon, the humanities are considered a joke now because universities are so overrun with SJW cancer and their fucktarded revisionist takes.
I can only speak to what I've seen but there are tons of women in STEM, though it's true that engineering and computer science (though increasingly less so) are sausage fests, a lot of that is because women just don't fucking apply because it is never presented to them as a career option in high school, or they switch programs because they are sick of being swarmed by men creeping on them being one of the only women in said sausage fests. It's kind of like men being under-represented in nursing despite being perfectly capable, it's just not presented to them as an option, and they don't want to deal with the stereotype of male nurses being faggots. The "racialized people" thing is just completely fucking inaccurate... STEM and engineering are fucking dominated by Asians and Indians, with a fair amount of blacks from Africa or the Caribbean, either on student visa or first-gen Canadians. Do they not fucking count? If anything it's the humanities where whites are ridiculously over-represented.
Oh and Indigenous people get basically free post secondary education here should they wish to pursue it, so if they're staying on the rez to huff gas instead, that's a whole other issue that isn't going to be solved by lowering standards for them via affirmative action. They self govern so it's their community that needs to light a fire under their asses, we keep throwing money at the problem which fulfills our responsibility as far as I'm concerned. Not that making them dependent on government aid seems to do diddly shit for actually helping them but whatever. Go work as a hideously underpaid guidance counselor on a rez in Shithole, Alaska if you care that much.