Study finds U.S. bias against women in science

"Unintended bias," not lack of talent, is keeping women locked out of high-level jobs in math and science, study finds.

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[Christopher Hall]

Tell that to my ChemE class of 2004

Headcount:
Women = 11
Men = 6

It's not an isolated event, either. Many professionals that I know recently graduated with higher percentages of women in their engineering and science classes. From the front lines, it looks like things are shifting. By no means is that a bad thing, though, more power to 'em.

Now let's see if we can get grammar school teachers to stop sedating our boys for imaginary illnesses and maybe we'll swing a little closer to 50/50, hm?

[Nith84]

What about comuter sciences?

The main question is what science and what maths. In my university there is a sharp contrast in the ratios of men to women between different science and engineering programs. Biology, Biochemistry, Electrical engineering, actuarial science, pure math and many other programs have a sagnificantly higher percentage of women to men. But in computer science, physics, software eng, computer eng etc there virtually no women at all. Maybe that has something to do with the differences? And maybe this study did not bother with these comparisons?

And where is the study that explains why there is a lot more women in many fields such as fine arts, languages, humanities etc? Are men being biased agiainst in these fields?