Why Men Dominate Math and Science Fields
By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 09 October 2007 08:39 am ET
Social scientists have studied it, lawyers have tried to fix it and post-feminist society is over it. But women are still outnumbered by men in math, science and engineering fields.
Most overt discrimination against women in the sciences has been reduced or eliminated in recent decades through legal, academic, corporate and government measures. But a climate that is less than fully friendly to women remains, and its texture is often still so taken for granted that it tends to be invisible.
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