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From: john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley)
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Subject: Re: career vs. relationships
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Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 13:29:48 EST
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In article <529@mmm.UUCP> mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) writes:
>	Thought experiment for the day: There are two people standing
>before you, one is female, the other is male. They are both about the same
>age. The only thing you know about these people is that they were randomly
>chosen from the University population at large, and that one is gung-ho
>about mathematics, and one is not. I offer to give you $1,000,000 if you
>can correctly guess which one is the gung-ho mathematician.
>
>	Which do you choose? If you choose the male, are you being sexist?

Well, no, I don't think it would be sexist, but it might not be very bright.
When I was majoring in math at the University of Colorado, about two thirds
of us students, undergraduates and graduates, were women.  The professors
were mostly men, though.

The sciences that seemed to me to be overwhelmingly filled with men were
physics, chemistry, engineering of various sorts (my sister was the only
woman majoring in Mechanical Engineering in her class), and geology.  Women
seemed very numerous in biology, the "social sciences", and math.

So maybe the stereotype is mistaken?  (They are occasionally, I've noticed.)
Or was CU really abnormal in this respect?
-- 
				Peace and Good!,
				      Fr. John Woolley
"Compared to what I have seen, all that I have written is straw." -- St. Thomas