Girls Don't Like Hard Science
John Tierney had an op-ed piece in the NY Times on Tuesday about the
recent National Academy of Sciences report on bias toward women in
science. He dismisses their findings of bias, and pins the reason for
the underrepresentation of women in research universities on "they
don't want to". Most girls, he opines, like the soft sciences, because
they are concrete and people oriented, while boys prefer the abstract
and "things". Perhaps, but you can be movivated by the concrete, be
people oriented and still do "hard science". Check out the letters in
response to his piece (full disclosure, one of the letters is mine).
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