Why no women? Easy, men are far better at math than women just as women are better with verbal skills than men. The sameness lies propagated by deceptive, sneaking liberals wallowing in political correctness are taken as truth by those in denial.
I wonder how the breakdown determined 45% were Jewish?? Asians are obvious but not Jews. Why no information on the remainder?
Aptitude.
Back to Math 55 for a moment. Baron-Cohen, along with many other scholars who write about cognitive sex differences, would not be surprised to learn that students who show up in 55 are overwhelmingly male. The Harvard registrar’s office reports that a total of 17 women have completed the course since 1990. Still, the equity activists could be right that the few women who defy the stereotype and take such a course have to overcome a “chilly environment.” I located two female survivors—Sherry Gong, currently enrolled, and Kelley Harris, who completed Math 55 with an A last year. “Did you encounter a hostile environment in that class?” asked Miss Harris. She laughed. “I loved my classmates!” When she once thought of dropping out, it was her male friends in the course who persuaded her to stay. Sherry Gong was taken aback when inquired whether she felt that women in math were unwelcome or marginalized. It was as if had asked whether women had the vote. “It is 2007!” she reminded me. Sergei Bernstein, a young man now enrolled, told me, “We would like to have more girls.”
Wanna bet those male students all have coke bottle glasses and pocket protectors?
PhD’s in cooking, cleaning, getting beering, etc. Just kidding!
Donna Shalala, president of the University of Miami and secretary of health and human services in the Clinton administration . . . warned that strong measures would be needed to improve the “hostile climate” women face in the academy. This “crisis,” as she called it, “clearly calls for a transformation of academic institutions . . . our nation’s future depends on it.”
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Cornell . . . just received a $3.3 million grant from the NSF to build a “critical mass” of women in all the STEM disciplines—ASAP.
the answer leaves me hanging.
I can’t remember - did Bill Gates take this course?
Getting a PhD is only the beginning. Something other than a science would be most practical. Do whatever you can become total master of and then the world will be yours.
That is good (or bad, depending on your philosophy) for a freshman course. It is humane to start weeding out early on, rather than wait until 4th year to cull the weak (lol).
For a contrasting situation, during my undergrad, we had some untouchable profs near retirement teaching the 4th year math and theoretical physics (AKA math) courses. One particular (required) course in partial differential equations began with 35 solid students (solid enough to finish 3rd year) and ended with 14 students, with a posted class average of 56%. Two women remained, with no non-Asian minorities. Because of this course, the rest switched majors or dropped out.
Intro to quantum field theory started with 12 students and we ended with 2 (though the average this time was in the 90's), both of us Caucasian males, FWIW.
The hard sciences can be merciless, and there is no room for subjective excuses for personal failure (like "the prof doesn't like me" - you either get the correct answer/perform a sane analysis or you don't, end of story).
Math 55? Big deal. Obvious, they never heard of math 201 at OU under “Big Daddy” Earl Lafond. Over fifty percent failure rate. One A in 15 years.
Just teach the subject! Don’t try to weed out the near geniuses from the geniuses. Chances are what the near geniuses can learn will handle about 99% of the work out there. They might be used to working harder already, and it gives them a better work ethic than the geniuses who didn’t have to study as much or at all. I saw too many of the near geniuses that ended up majoring in Psychology because they were weeded out by courses like these. That’s a waste of talent. I recommend that they don’t go to Harvard, and that they go to a small underrated school that will teach them instead of weeding them out.
My last 2 years in college, there was not a single female in my classes. Maybe a handful the first 2 years.
The last woman I did research with ended up being my secretary because she was better at talking to sponsors. As far as scientific work went, she had no idea.
But she got the same research credit I did and an AMAZING job offer. I wonder why I didn’t get ANY offers?
I’m the third generation example in my family, of a female with boy brains! Grandma was an accountant, Mom and I enjoy math and mechanical pursuits. What’s more, we don’t talk much, and when I hear other women talk on and on, I get impatient.
We don’t run masculine in the looks, fortunately :) and when lost, I ask directions. But I can believe there’s a genetic factor at work here.
Cheers!
Well I double majored in Chemistry and Math. Math was easy. But hey I went to Medical School. Problem is what woma who is the type to do physical sciences will be that way after a lefty indoctrination at expensive Universities. I never got the lefty message. No womyn studies and such for me.
When will these people realize that males and females are different? It’s so simple.
What’s for dinner?
Because intuition and consensus are only the beginning in math or science, not the end product?