tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850330.post115863560436261069..comments2023-08-03T04:54:54.068-04:00Comments on Abacaxi Mamão: A break from Torah to talk about gender and the sciencesAbacaxi Mamaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06604184268628243496noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11850330.post-1158674383700137162006-09-19T09:59:00.000-04:002006-09-19T09:59:00.000-04:00When I was an undergraduate at the University of M...When I was an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, I took a really, really hard math class taught by Dr. Brin (father of the google guy). 43 students started, of whom 3 were female. 17 finished, of whom 3 were female. 5 went on to the next semester, of whom 3 were female.<BR/><BR/>My anecdotal lesson from this? Very few women are interested in higher math, but those who are are very good at it.<BR/><BR/>The article mentions stripping names from journal submissions - that's a "duh" kind of thing to do, and in fact many journals already do such a thing today - not for reasons of gender bias, but undifferentiated bias...<BR/><BR/>Other than that, however, I am hard pressed to think of institutional changes which make a whole hell of a lot of sense - academia is already about as family-friendly a place as I can imagine (I have an uncle who's a professor, and despite his claims of how hard he works, inherently he has an amazingly flexible schedule). The NYT article was remarkably thin on specifics...Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16491386537225283381noreply@blogger.com