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Most of the students at the conservatory I went to were women, and essentially all of them had been spending hours a day for 1-3 decades honing their skills. I
by jberryman 13y ago
Most of the students at the conservatory I went to were women, and essentially all of them had been spending hours a day for 1-3 decades honing their skills. I guess my point is my experiences around women does not mesh with your theory.
- sentenza 13y agoWith math-related fields it IMO boils down to this: From what I have seen in academia during the last few years (yes, anecdotal, sample size of about two dozen female PhD students), I'd say that women are sorted out at almost all stages of the engineering/sciences career path. By the time you are a PhD student or Postdoc, the weeding out has produced a situation in which the women that remain are on average better than the male PhD students, because only the most talented/determined stuck it out. Then most of them leave academia because they might at some point in the future want children, which is a 90% chance career-ender.