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Following up on Jane's postings on WWK, I would like to make the
following observations...
First, I want to challenge the assumption that the primary reason
for the low participation of women in majors like engineering, physics,
and math is because of the way these disciplines are taught. If this were
so, then we would expect to see similarly low rates of participation in
these majors everywhere that they are taught. However, it is not
universally true that there is a low participation by women in these
majors. In some countries, such as France and Hungary, the participation
by women in these majors is much higher than it is in the United States.