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• 27 Sep 11
  

  Zeph Yranthes

  culture interesting politics school science

• 08 Sep 09
  

  Mare BV

  Why aren't there more women in science and engineering - Controversial research suggests: They just aren't interested

  gender science career sociology

• 15 Jul 08
  

  lfriedl

  Another good newspaper article, covering the paper I just posted. I think what's "being discovered" and argued in these articles though, is something we've taken for granted here in CS: that women are choosing to leave certain professions because they're

  women vs. men research psychology

• 28 May 08
  

  harry palmer

  women science snafu tech gender work education physics

  • WHEN IT COMES to the huge and persistent gender gap in science and technology jobs, the finger of blame has pointed in many directions: sexist companies, boy-friendly science and math classes, differences in aptitude.

             

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    Women make up almost half of today's workforce, yet hold just a fraction of the jobs in certain high-earning, high-qualification fields. They constitute 20 percent of the nation's engineers, fewer than one-third of chemists, and only about a quarter of computer and math professionals.

    Over the past decade and more, scores of conferences, studies, and government hearings have been directed at understanding the gap. It has stayed in the media spotlight thanks in part to the high-profile misstep of then-Harvard president Larry Summers, whose loose comment at a Harvard conference on the topic in 2005 ultimately cost him his job.

    Now two new studies by economists and social scientists have reached a perhaps startling conclusion: An important part of the explanation for the gender gap, they are finding, are the preferences of women themselves. When it comes to certain math- and science-related jobs, substantial numbers of women - highly qualified for the work - stay out of those careers because they would simply rather do something else.
• 27 May 08
  

  Robert Reed

  gender politics math science psychology

• 26 May 08
  

  Jorunn Newth

  gender equality jobs

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  William Wallace

  Why aren't there more women in science and engineering? Controversial new research suggests: They just aren't interested.

  Bookmarks

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  Doug Holton
• 23 May 08
  

  Matthew Cheney

  WHEN IT COMES to the huge and persistent gender gap in science and technology jobs, the finger of blame has pointed in many directions: sexist companies, boy-friendly science and math classes, differences in aptitude.

  fword gender

• 20 May 08
  

  Ruth C

  science culture math personality psychology economics women

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  whip_lash

  Why aren't there more women in science and engineering? Controversial new research suggests: They just aren't interested.

  culture sociology science

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  Bruce Berglund

  women's

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  Chrys R

  culture career psychology

• 19 May 08
  

  John Mahaffie

  Insights on gender and math/science, perhaps tempering the efforts to get/keep girls interested.

  curriculum gender math science

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  Geekgirl 397

  Women who are mathematically gifted are more likely than men to have strong verbal abilities as well ... the career choices for math-precocious women are wider than for their male counterparts.

  delicious politics career culture gender math science technology

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  Benjamin Collins

  politics culture

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  gender technology genderandtech09

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