Women Catching Up at the Top

by rrusczyk, Feb 13, 2009, 4:24 PM

The gap between men and women at the top of mathematics has apparently narrowed quite a bit in a short amount of time. Granted, I haven't looked at the details of the study, but this sure suggests a *very* strong environmental component to the gap, considering how much more the education environment has changed in the last few generations than genes have changed.

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That's great to hear!!
I love knowing that the gap is changing and closing all the time!

However, recently, one of my friends commented that one of the reasons she did not want to be an engineer was that "all the people in my class would be guys".

Two sides of the story conflict, but in the end, the gap is truly closing!

I am off to read about it! :lol:

by The_Scintillator, Feb 13, 2009, 4:47 PM

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Sounds to me like these two data points agree, not conflict.

Three generations ago: "I'm not going into engineering because I'm essentially not allowed to."

Now: "I'm not going into engineering because I don't want to."

Not all women will make the same decision as your friend, so there will be more than the 0 women in the engineering class that there use to be.

(FWIW, the split in my major, chemical engineering, class of 1993, was basically 50-50.)

by rrusczyk, Feb 13, 2009, 6:07 PM

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Odd. Possibly coincidence, but last night on NOVA there was something on challenging Intelligent Design and this reminded me of it.

Maybe check it out?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/

A small gripe w. the video: it's designed to teach to the general public, who have all forgotten biology, chromosomes, and so on.

PBS also had a really good documentary explaining one of the main reasons for the economic collapse called "The Ascent of Money".

by alexhhmun, Feb 14, 2009, 1:01 AM

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