why the equal and greater negative stereotypes against women in law, medicine, etc were completely powerless They weren't powerless; it took several class-acti

why the equal and greater negative stereotypes against women in law, medicine, etc were completely powerless They weren't powerless; it took several class-action lawsuits and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints in the 70's to increase the number of women lawyers.[1] I've also heard, for example from some comments by 'rayiner here on HN, that law schools made deliberate changes to their admission policies yet for some reason the negative stereotypes in engineering were the ones that took hold and prevented women from succeeding there Maybe because tech, both industry and academia, hasn't made the same efforts that the legal profession did? [1] http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=facpub http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic... (p.14 ff)