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Re:Advice to a Young Mathematician [pdf] by ph0rcyas on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @12:40AM (#4841180)
In the risk of being downvoted to death, I think reposting these articles is necessary:

'Don't become a scientist!': http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html 'Women in science': http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

The career for pure mathematicians(which is more like the humanities, and specific knowledge quite untransferrable) in academia, being better or worse, is open for discussion.

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Re:Advice to a Young Mathematician [pdf] by mitchi on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:26AM (#4841286)
Quite questionable examples. Most girls I know become teachers/nurses/psychology/doctors and a few engineers. Zero in CS usually. It's only about the money in the US because your diploma costs too much money and you need to pay down your debt. His webpage only applies to the US, I'm sure other countries like Russia have babes in Computer Science (See Golden Eye).
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