Your story is just one anecdote, and I'm not very fond of anecdotes, but it does identify a serious hole in my data: we collected only hiring statistics, not drop-out statistics. So while I maintain that science appears to do a fair or better-than-fair job of hiring women, I can't speak to retention. Thanks for giving me something else to think about.
That said, I still think that the presence of gender disparity early in the scientific career track suggests that society discourages women from pursuing scientific careers beginning at a young age.
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Date: 2012-06-03 05:07 pm (UTC)That said, I still think that the presence of gender disparity early in the scientific career track suggests that society discourages women from pursuing scientific careers beginning at a young age.