Since then, UMass has simply increased the stupidity and ignorance of what had been a good school of social sciences. The schools of chemistry, engineering, and computer technology remain first class. Alas, there are very few women students there.
If there is an issue that provokes further study it may be why women outnumber men 3-1 in veterinary school.
So when do we declare "victory" in this battle?
When all men are dead?
When all men are unemployed?
When all men work for women?
What, exactly, is the goal, and how will we know when we have achieved it?
I am sick to death of this crap. I am tired of hearing it. I do not give a rat’s ass why there are not more women in science. It has nothing, Nothing, NOTHING to do with opportunity.
Maybe...MAYbe, MAYBE women just don’t WANT to go into those fields.
Here is an idea-let’s have the government FORCE them into those fields. That is a real winning idea.
I am sick of this. I have seen and heard it bemoaned over and over and over and over and over again.
Is there a separate category for Muslim women that are hung or stoned to death?
Has it occured to these brain-dead liberal morons that its possible, just possible that more men than women are interested in STEAM careers?
“The trouble is, it?s not at all obvious why these gaps persist”
Oh c’mon!
In other puzzling new, “Girls Have Disproportionate Number of Dolls”
Because we love taking care of babies, animals, and other helpless things that need to be nurtured. For most of us, it's in our DNA. Also, new techniques have made it possible for a 120-pound woman to handle a 1200-pound horse, so more women can go into a large-animal practice. And while many years ago some male ranchers, farmers, and horsemen held secret or not-so-secret prejudices about the competence and abilities of female large-animal vets, those have mostly gone away now, so they're willing to use women vets for livestock.
Anyway, back to the main topic: women who love science in general are attracted to the life sciences. I went to grad school to be a scientist and for a long time I was absolutely enthralled with my work, and was willing to put in endless hours in the lab. Eventually I realized that a career in science was going to mean I probably couldn't have marriage and babies, because my field would always require a sixteen-hour workday. It was fun, but I never got to see the sunshine or take a day off because the rats always needed attention. It would be easier being a physician (which is part of the reason half of all med school classes are now composed of females).
I know some woman engineers, computer scientists, and physicists. They're great, they do wonderful work, they're pushing back the frontiers of science just like their male colleagues, and they never, ever whine about equality; they just do science. Equality isn't an issue anymore; the value of the work they do is the sole issue for them and their colleagues. They are not screaming and calling men pigs.
The visible employees serving bank customers today are virtually all women. It now seems odd to occasionally see a male bank teller. Likewise, clerks/salespeople in retail stores and restaurants are by far predominantly female. Even in hardware/bldg supply/gardening and plant stores/nurseries there appears to be a predominance, or at least nearly that, of females. I seriously question where young men are finding employment.
My daughter is transferring to Salem State.
" But nearly a third of women (against just 9 per cent of men) also believe that working part-time is “important” or 'somewhat important. ...."
That's the reason that less women are at the top of any profession that demands being a workaholic. It's not rocket science.
For whatever psychological reasons, only two thirds of women have no problem with simply showing up for work for 40 hours per week. That pretty much rules out having the same number of women as men being at the top in careers where being at the top requires being a workaholic and not merely working 40 per hour week.
The majority of medical school graduates are now women. Yet, female M.D.'s, on the average, make less money than male M.D.'s.
Why?
Because a large number of female M.D.'s go into Family Practice, decide to drop their hospital admitting privileges so that a "Hospitalist" can treat you as an inpatient if you really get sick and then see clinic patients only 4 days per weeks, during clinic hours, so they they can have "Quality of Life" without a beeper and with three day weekends.
Since they essentially function as glorified Physician's Assistants, they are paid accordingly or are simply replaced by Physician's Assistants by the bean-counters. The same goes for the male Family Practitioners that make the same lifestyle choices.
The female M.D.'s who actually suck it up, become Hospitalists or full-time surgeons and deal with those critically ill patients in the ICU or a perforated bowel at 3:00 AM get paid the Big Bucks. The bean counters know that such a person cannot be replaced by a Physician's Assistant.
In a highly competitive, supply and demand world, you can have either:
(A.)the Big Bucks
or
(B.)a four day work week with no nights or weekends so that you can pursue "Quality of Life"
Unless Mommy and Daddy own the company you work for, you are not going to get both (A.) and (B.) but that is exactly what the victim feminists demand for women.
She never was into dolls and can wield a chain saw and other tools like a pro. She has hunted with her dad/brother and shot 2 8-pt bucks and still shoots trap with dad. Her friends are amazed at the things she knows how to do.
I always figured it was what interested them and I have seen where the majority of females do lean towards the "more nuturing" fields.