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He has some statistics? Shark attacks increase in the summer and so do the sales of ice cream. There has been a lot of discrimination so it might be a little
by melling 8y ago
He has some statistics?
Shark attacks increase in the summer and so do the sales of ice cream.
There has been a lot of discrimination so it might be a little early to look at the data.
Consider:
The first women was admitted to Yale in 1966.
The woman who helped Einstein with the math for General Relativity couldn’t get a job at a university without some help.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether
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- guitarbill 8y agoIn the UK, significantly more women study at university now than men [0][1] (not in Physics though). I am neither agreeing nor disagreeing with Prof Strumia, but simply pointing out that maybe we can agree we've come a long way, and that historial data or past injustices is not a good starting point for policymaking that will affect the bright minds of young uni students. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/aug/28/university-gender-gap-at-record-high-as-30000-more-women-accepted https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/aug/28/university... [1] https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/11-01-2018/sfr247-higher-education-student-statistics/subjects https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/11-01-2018/sfr247-higher-educati...
- Barrin92 8y ago>and that historial data or past injustices is not a good starting point for policymaking that will affect the bright minds of young uni students. given that one of Strumia's data points to bolster his argument was the citation rate of women vs the citation rate of men, this isn't an historical data point. There are significantly more senior physicists, with higher citation rates than women, simply because women until fairly recently had a low foothold in academia.