Women get ~40% of the doctorates in chemistry. The field is unbalanced, but not that unbalanced. This isn't a general chemistry conference, it's a quantum chem

Women get ~40% of the doctorates in chemistry. The field is unbalanced, but not that unbalanced. This isn't a general chemistry conference, it's a quantum chemistry conference. I don't have any particular knowledge of the field, but I expect it's like I've seen at biology conferences. Tons of women in conferences on certain topics, but usually not the ones involving lots of math. Which is more likely: a traditionally-male field full of old white men has adapted exactly in step with the changing gender makeup of their field, OR it has not? I don't understand the question. You're asking if it's likely that the gender ratio of the field has moved in lockstep with the gender ratio of the field? Isn't that tautologically true?