Girls & Math: How It Works

Re:Girls & Math: How It Works by mnemonicsloth on Monday February 18, 2008 @03:19PM (#118334)

Here at myState University, the math department operates close to gender parity, with maybe a slight majority of women in the Applied Math concentration. Engineering is a total sausage-fest.

Which is funny, if you think about it, because engineers only need to know so much math.

I'm not even going to talk about physics.

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Re:Girls & Math: How It Works by ivankirigin on Monday February 18, 2008 @04:07PM (#118384)

CMU undergrad CS routinely checks the "people named dave" to female ratio. It used to be greater than one. My year at CMU's robotics institute had 3 Daves and 5 women.

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Re:Girls & Math: How It Works by edw519 on Monday February 18, 2008 @05:56PM (#118475)

I assume a school as reputable as CMU has already accounted for the "woman named Dave" scenario.

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Re:Girls & Math: How It Works by icky on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @05:09AM (#118816)

Davwina?

Davetha?

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Re:Girls & Math: How It Works by imsteve on Monday February 18, 2008 @04:38PM (#118409)

Engineers needed to know more math where I went to school.

I'm sure the mathematicians among us may disagree with my definition of "math."

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