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To: Amy J who wrote (176627)1/26/2004 2:24:01 PM
From: Saturn V  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Ref - "Women hold between 3 percent and 15 percent of full professorships in science and engineering at the schools surveyed"...
"only 8.3 percent of math professors were women."

The reason for this is very obvious ! When I went to college I encountered very few women in any engineering, math or science class. Much less than than the 8 percent listed above. My contemporaries are todays professors.

However you would have hoped that due to the women lib movement, the number of women in science, engineering and math would have increased dramatically. But the improvement has been very limited.

Correct me if I am wrong, but there is a major math phobia amongst women in America. I ran into it spades, overseeing the education of my daughter. During mid-school, all her friends would utter phrases like "math is geeky" ,and did not want to take up advanced math classes in high school. So I switched her peer group by sending her to a different high school. I encouraged my daughter to take the most advanced high school math classes available, and she did very well. But in college she will still not consider Engineering as a profession.

Boys tend to do slightly better than Girls in Mathematical skills. But Girls significantly outperform Boys at Verbal skills, and on the average Girls outscore Boys on SAT. However the female bias against Math is more cultural than genetic. We need women organizations to encourage more young girls to enter engineering. Unfortunately Engineering has a geeky image amongst both boys and girls, which probably accounts for the low number of US born engineers.
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