Couple of thoughts on the percentage of female math majors... First - a significant percentage of math majors eventually go into teaching. I wasn't able to fin

Couple of thoughts on the percentage of female math majors... First - a significant percentage of math majors eventually go into teaching. I wasn't able to find the exact percentage, but 3 of the 5 most common jobs for math majors are in teaching. Second - the types of math courses that undergraduate CS majors take is different from the types of courses that math majors take - especially math majors who are planning to go into teaching. CS degrees tend to focus more on discrete math and algorithms, whereas as math degrees focus on... well... I don't actually know what math degrees require. This is pure anecdote (and probably bound to piss off a few math majors), but I remember taking a group theory course in my 4th year and all of the math majors in the course seemed to struggle far more than the CS majors in the course. So if you consider that math major often means teacher, then no I don't think that data point about 40% of math majors being female does much to dispel traditional gender stereotypes. https://datausa.io/story/06-16-2016_math-teachers/ https://datausa.io/story/06-16-2016_math-teachers/