Re: verb gender

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:09:06 GMT, Ron Hardin
<rhhardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:42E6ECC6.5338@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:

[...]

> But we know the female participation in math and physics
> is small.

It isn't. In the last few years women have received over
30% of the PhDs in math granted to U.S. citizens; I don't
know the national statistics for undergraduate and master's
degrees, but they're noticeably higher in the math program
in which I teach. (E.g., half of the students in the
master's level abstract algebra course that I'm now teaching
are women.) 30% isn't as high as it could be -- cultural
attitudes are persistent, and I still run into the
occasional woman who was actively discouraged from pursuing
an interest in mathematics -- but it certainly isn't small.

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