@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@beige.party
2026-03-11 17:38 UTC
@CStamp@mastodon.social @mayintoronto@beige.party @grimalkina@mastodon.social
Engineering was almost all men and at the other end were the BSc Biology classes which were well over half women when I was going through in the 80s.
Some of that was due to overlap with nursing and pre-med, but third and fourth year were all biology majors.
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@grimalkina@mastodon.social 2026-03-11 18:13
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@beige.party @CStamp@mastodon.social @mayintoronto@beige.party the research says many early grade mathematically gifted women go into life sciences to avoid discrimination / as a function of discriminatory tracking (whether intentionally or implicitly)