Blame "The Big Bang Theory" - Why Fewer Women Go Into Science

Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - 10:50 in Psychology & Sociology

When it comes to disparities in gender among various, there are no limits to the hypotheses laid out to explain differences, usually in sync with the cultural agenda of the proponent. Engineering, for example, pays women more equally than any field in America but has far fewer women than environmentalist groups, which pay women about $.70 compared to men - yet engineering is criticized for having fewer women. Medical doctors have equal representation while the social sciences have fewer men and the hard sciences have fewer women. read more

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