Why aren’t more women becoming scientists?

Here’s a 3-part series from Cognitive Daily updating the research. 

The bottom line?  It’s possible that there are some subtle cognitive differences between men and women, but it’s not clear, but its’s not clear that these really account for the differences.  There do appear to be missed opportunities for encouraging women to become scientists.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    Catherine

    "…but it’s not clear that these really account for the differences [in the number of men vs women working in science]."

    Career choice is based not strictly upon whether one is able to be proficient at the work involved.

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