Re: verb gender

Brian M. Scott wrote:
> > 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.
>

The prediction is that the women will drop out when they find you can't
do work at the highest levels without giving up everything else;
a requirement that large numbers of males are perfectly happy with.

It has never been the case that women couldn't do math. It's that they
want to do something else too. Women in chemistry has always been high,
owing I think to its pre-med characteristic. Doing something else is
always in view.

It's not a cultural attitude, in particular, so it won't change.

The number of women encouraged in math must be pretty high. Every math
guy I know is in favor of more women in math. The question is why they
keep dropping out.

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Ron Hardin
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