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A comment on Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science. Parent comment

Re:Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science by Agathos on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @03:46PM (#74783)
All true. It also doesn't explain why there are so few female programmers or engineers, given those fields offer much more than the academic payscale.

Greenspun's points are well worth thinking about (as a grad student, I ponder them frequently), but the rant is a complete non sequitur. It offers nothing to explain the gender difference.

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Re:Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science by herdrick on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @04:47PM (#74806)
He suggests that young women have better perspective, plan more for the future, and don't consider themselves bulletproof like young men do.
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Re:Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science by Agathos on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @05:03PM (#74814)
He does suggest it so I guess I shouldn't say he lost track of the point of the argument.

But he certainly doesn't show it. If that were the difference, women would avoid academic humanities and biology jobs, which they don't. And they wouldn't avoid programming and engineering jobs, but they do.

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