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> That's really not true. Physics undergraduate in most universities is perhaps 1:10 male:female. It was talking about science-degree courses, not Physics spec

• joshvm 11y ago
  I interpreted the statement as as slightly more hyperbolic than it actually is. What they say is true, across the board, but it's not as bad as it sounds. The problem is that 'especially' implies that the ratio gets worse as you get higher in academia and I think that's nonsense. My undergraduate degree was physics, but we spent time in other classes run by the maths and engineering departments. The stats for UCL are here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/srs/statistics/tables/g/1415 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/srs/statistics/tables/g/1415 It's difficult to get more granular data. The graduate figures there are for masters and PhD combined. My department is space and climate and we certainly don't have 99 PhD students! I can't find stats for my undergraduate intake (Warwick '08), so you'll have to take my word for it. Things may have improved a lot since then. My girlfriend says that her physics course (St Andrews) was fairly even. Oxford is an interesting edge case because they seem to control for gender quite well. They accepted more girls than boys for undergrad in 2013 (over all sciences) at least. https://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/statisticalinformation/#d.en.6207 https://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/statisticalinformation/#d.en.62...
• superuser2 11y ago
  I think you mean 10:1.