Re:A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women ...
by tptacek on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @05:04PM
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No, the numbers hold up all the way to PhDs. Women aren't obtaining math PhD's to become "math teachers" (and, if you read my original comment, you can also predict that they aren't doing academic crypto research to go teach math either).
Re:A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women ...
by chillee on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @05:27PM
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Could you provide a citation on "the numbers hold up all the way to PhDs"?
I found https://www.aps.org/programs/education/statistics/fraction-p...
Vs
https://www.aps.org/programs/education/statistics/womenmajor...
Over 40% undergraduate degrees go to women, while less than 30% of doctorates.
Re:A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women ...
by tptacek on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @05:31PM
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https://imgur.com/a/nNHqwsP
Science Magazine, "Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines", vertical axis is PhDs, 2011 numbers.
If nothing else at this point I think we can put a bullet in the "they just want to be math teachers" hypothesis.
Re:A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women ...
by aptwebapps on Thursday May 10, 2018 @04:22AM
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That url works, but no image loads.
"Women are around 20% of CS majors, physics majors, engineering majors, etc – but almost half of math majors" ...
"I was totally confused by this for a while until a commenter directed me to the data on what people actually do with math degrees. The answer is mostly: they become math teachers. They work in elementary schools and high schools, with people.
Then all those future math teachers leave for the schools after undergrad, and so math grad school ends up with pretty much the same male-tilted gender balance as CS, physics, and engineering grad school."