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Old 30-July-2008, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by jokergirl View Post
... apparently chemistry, biology, astronomy and medicine have already a >50% female student ratio. Mathematics is pretty precisely 50% ...
Not astronomy and math. See the AWIS link I gave above. The difference grows as you move up the ladder (undergrad->grad->postdoc->researcher), and the top levels haven't changed much in the past 15-20 years.
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