Sexism - Debatable.
Fraud - Definitely.
i’m sure marie curie would agree... /sarc
Give people power and a bunch of white lab coats and, sure, there’s going to be sexism, some of it quite overt. I’ve spent most of my adulthood in computer-related fields and it is obvious there too.
But I would submit that it may just be natural. Women aren’t attracted to science as much as men because the pursuit of true science seems somewhat cold and sterile. Facts don’t change just because you want them to (as opposed to junk science and climate change, which is another story). Most women (not all) would rather exist in a field where there are choices and she can choose the facts she likes best.
Those women who truly want to study and learn science should be encouraged to do so but I expect there will always be a disparity between the percentage of male scientists and female scientists. IMO, there’s nothing wrong or unnatural about that.
Somebody call Larry Summers!
Modern “feminism” is a patently false ideology largely invented by men to promote by the agenda of the left. As an ideology, it is a transparent knock-off of the race based civil rights movement. Women were drawn to it because it offered (and has delivered) economic and psychic “rents”. Unfortunately, it has also been destructive and murderous.
Ignoring evidence is evidence of the absence of scientific reason.
When I was an undergraduate (Geology, during the Ford administration), there was no bias against women, in fact if anything, women were far more likely to be a welcome presence than just another guy, and as such any bias might have been in their favor.
They still had to cut the mustard, though.
Those who did earned their colleagues' respect, and often admiration as well.
We live in insane times.
Every time I hear about gender bias, I think of my grandmother.
She was the Tuttle of Martin & Tuttle, one of the biggest west coast advertising agencies in the 1930s.
She complained about her Mercedes “not having any pickup after 80” when she used to race people on Highway 101 when travelling from California to Washington in the 1950s.
She was later Art Director for Frederick & Nelson, Seattle’s premium department store in the 1950s.
Gender bias didn’t affect her a whole hell of a lot.
Understanding current causes of women's underrepresentation in science 6 page PDF article, it's a very interesting read.
If you want to include links and assorted HTML commands, then just right click on the printer friendly page. A drop down menu will provide the option to "View Source." Click on that. A new Notepad window will open for National Review Online(NRO) stories with the source code, text, links, italics, blockquotes, etc. Copy it. I scroll down and start with the title. That way I get the original subtitle too.
It's a little different according to the site.
P.S. While NRO always seems to give absolute hyperlinks, some websites give you relative hyperlinks that need to be converted to absolute hyperlinks.