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To: Charliehorse
Engineering, Computer Science, Physics,etc that can be used to get a job are all dominated by men.

Have you checked the computer science enrollments lately? Seems like we see at least as many women CS grads as men. While men still dominate those other fields, the dominance is no where near as total as it once was.

The pre-college teaching field is still dominated by women, especially at the elementry level. These days many states do not allow for an "education major" so all those women are majoring in something else, often physcology or sociology, but sometimes art or literature or languages, even though their intent is to become teachers, not to work in those fields, and this skews the numbers somewhat. I believe most law schools are majority women, or "too close to call", as are med schools. I know the of the 3 or 4 student doctors that I saw along with the teacher doctor who was treating me around Christmas time, only one was male.

As a father of two daughters, it does bother me that the men these college girls often socialise with are not of the quality one would want for a future son in law, many of the same aged, or slightly older, men are either indifferent part time students, or not students at all, and not college graduates either, neither are they skilled tradesmen, many of which are brighter than these loosers, who seem more or less content to just drift along in low paying, burgher flipping type jobs. Engineers, chemists and others of that ilk, are perceived as "too geeky", even though they are intellectually much better matches for the women, at least for MY DAUGHTER, they are!! (My other daughter is married off already, to a lawyer, but then she's a lawyer herself, so I guess that's OK. :)

49 posted on 04/30/2003 7:16:09 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato
In medical schools, there is a near parity of men and women now trying to get medical degrees, though men tend to dominate the R&D end of the feild, women the GP end of the feild. As for computer science, based on what I have seen, it is still at least 75% dominated by men, same with most technical feilds.

One problem among young males epsecially is the very anti intellectual band of pop culture when it comes to males, with hip-hop culture especially.
75 posted on 05/01/2003 3:58:22 AM PDT by JNB
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