PZ Myers thinks it means we are "wasting" a lot of brains. Why is it a waste if women make different choices of careers than men??? Just for reference, more than half of all students in law school and medical school are female .. does that mean we are wasting male brains? Of course one might ask about the nations' leading colleges ... half of the ivies are now led by female presidents and . MIT is now led by President Susan Hockfield. Perhaps we are headed for a bee hive?
Rachel Kaufman is upset that only 27% of women choose to go into the sciences.
The United States ranks 31st on the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index and is tied for 21st on Social Watch’s Gender Equity Index. Still, the test scores of U.S. high school girls have reached parity with those of boys, and half the undergraduate math degrees awarded in
Phyllis Wise left the UW as Provost and moved to Illinois as the Chancellor at the University of Illinois. Dr. Wise, a research biologist in physiology, is ts responsible for the Urbana-Champaign campus' budget of $1.5B with more than $400M in research expenditures. . he has been particularly interested in whether hormones influence brains of women and men during development, during adulthood and during aging.
this country go to women.
But after that, something goes off the rails. Just 27% of math Ph.D.s go to women. Exactly the same percentage — 27% — of people with careers in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering (STEM) fields are women. Women constitute a very similar number — 30% — of STEM college professors.
This is a problem, and not just from an equality standpoint, says math professor Rebecca Goldin, an associate professor of mathematics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and director of research at the university’s Statistical Assessment Service. “Scientific and mathematical progress relies on the best people doing their best work,” she says. “If you discourage half the population [from doing science], then that part is simply not in your pool of who’s the best, so the best science doesn’t happen.”
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