I feel like you s/Math/<any scientific discipline>/g and this article would still hold. Yes, the sciences and engineering, and pretty much every academic pursui

I feel like you s/Math/<any scientific discipline>/g and this article would still hold. Yes, the sciences and engineering, and pretty much every academic pursuit has been historically restricted to white men in the western world, but that doesn't have much bearing on the modern world. If anything, I feel mathematics is more open than many other STEM fields. I got my degree in mathematics, and I noticed the gender gap in classes was nonexistent. In the calculus and statistics and other classes which were required for engineers, the classroom distribution would definitely skew male. But in the pure math classes, like topology, abstract algebra, real analysis, etc that would only be taken by math majors, the gender distribution was 50-50. In several of my classes the women outnumbered the men. And this was also true of the faculty: 3/6 professors I took classes with were women.