Women in these fields are growing..
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/feb/21/edu-women-overtake-men-in-earning-degrees-at-all/
"Twenty to 30 years ago, biology was mainly male," said Andresse St. Rose, senior researcher for the American Association of University Women. "Today women earn the majority of bachelor's and master's and about half of the [doctoral] degrees in biology."
The biggest jump has been in the percentage of chemists, which climbed from 8 percent to 32 percent during the same period, data show.
About 20 years ago, when George Graham was an engineering student, there was maybe one woman in his classes, he said. Now, women make up to 30 or 40 percent of some of the engineering classes the mechanical engineer teaches as director of the Wacker Institute at Chattanooga State Community College.
True enough; but how much is due to affirmative-action style promotion and how much due to them actually being attracted to the Hard Sciences? Also remember that universities are fairly male unfriendly [student-wise] as the thinking that I was trying to illustrate with the last portions of my post become more and more social-norm. (i.e. the rejection of the "male attribute" of logic as desirable in-itself; that is, its acceptance or rejection is predicated upon if it agrees with some social/political ideology.)
In short: how many men give up on higher-education altogether because of ridiculous "requirements" and/or because their "natural attributes" [like logic] must be made subservient to the pushed ideologies?
About 20 years ago, when George Graham was an engineering student, there was maybe one woman in his classes, he said. Now, women make up to 30 or 40 percent of some of the engineering classes the mechanical engineer teaches as director of the Wacker Institute at Chattanooga State Community College.
Yes, but I did qualify my observation as being my own observation; and I did go to a fairly conservative school -- when my [recent American] History class was asked if Hiroshima/Nagasaki was right or wrong not a single person sided with 'wrong' {Statistically even there it was unlikely, but the teacher commented on it saying that it was "scary that the class was that conservative"} -- which means it was probably just on the line of being centrist.