For those of you who haven't been on a college campus in 30 years, here are a few eye-opening facts:
1. 58% of biology majors are female.
2. 49% of chemistry majors are female.
3. 47% of med school applicants are female.
The percentage of females in vet medicine and pharmacy are much higher.
Your snarky post reflects a belief that people commenting here are not only dinosaurs, but childless, unemployed ones at that. I'll get to the specifics of how meaningless your stats are in a moment as it relates to STEM. I would suspect most of the people commenting here are in technical disciplines. We may not have been on college campuses recently, but we have children and grandchildren who
are, and we actually work with [or hire people] who -- surprisingly, according to your trenchant analysis -- are recent college graduates.
- For what is a general degree in biology useful?
- How many of those females are Americans?
- What's the percentage in math?
- What's the percentage in physics?
- What's the percentage in Comp Sci -- not ITS, not an associates degree in networking or Computer Engineering, but a real Comp Sci major?
- What's the percentage in real engineering -- not Industrial Engineering or Environmental Engineering, but things like EE, ME?