{"id":3043,"date":"2012-10-24T09:49:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2015-11-14T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T23:10:07","slug":"male-scientists-still-seem-to-think-that-women-innately-suck-at-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/10\/24\/male-scientists-still-seem-to-think-that-women-innately-suck-at-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Male scientists still seem to think that women innately suck at math."},"content":{"rendered":"Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

What Male And Female Scientists Say About Women In Science<\/h1>\n

Interesting study, though to most women in the sciences, especially in math, physics, and tech, this is hardly news.<\/p>\n

It might also be worth teaching male scientists that women don’t innately suck at math, a fact of which female scientists already seem to be aware.<\/p>\n

In the survey, women were more likely than men to cite discrimination as a reason there were fewer female physicists than biologists. Women were less likely to say that individual preferences were a factor. In the interviews, other differences emerged. Biologists often said that innate differences played a role, but the way they talked about these differences changed depending on their gender. Women were more likely to talk about women’s desire to connect emotionally with what they were working; men talked about brain differences or women’s (supposed) problems with math.<\/p>\n

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“that few men in either discipline emphasized the present discrimination that women in science may face (and that men in physics hold a much larger share of senior faculty positions) suggests that discrimination is not being adequately addressed in physics departments at top research universities.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via What Male And Female Scientists Say About Women In Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n