Re:Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2020 for...
by yardie on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:05PM
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Well I was in an engineering class where the professor said to the female students, "you shouldn't be taking this class because you are taking up valuable space from better engineers." Shortly after he was forced to retire. This was early 00s. Even if those departments aren't hostile to women now they were hardly welcoming to them in the past. Engineering and CS have the perception of being hostile to women in a way that other science departments (biology, math, even physics) do not.
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Re:Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2020 for...
by isitdopamine on Saturday October 16, 2021 @09:54AM
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That’s a very inappropriate comment and the professor who made it must be reprehended.
However, in order to get a PhD you must face much harder challenges. Whoever left engineering because of that comment is not fit for a PhD.