Atheism + revisited, anyone here also post there?

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This is just in my experience, but in math and science courses you are expected to be not as good as the male counterparts. as such many professors tend to overlook female students in favor of male students.

This is a leftover of a time when women's courses in school were... home ec, home ec, some more home ec, and maybe a little bit of... home ec, and they were expected to take home ec.

That time is over, and so too will this utterly disappear in time.

In their defense, I don't think they're intentionally shunning women, I think it's unconscious. You CAN get attention and recognition in math and science, but you have to be spectacular to do so. there's also pay disparities and professional opportunity differences.

You always have to be spectacular to get recognition. If one doesn't stand out, then why would they be recognized within a crowd of others who do not stand out?

The pay disparities are more often due to personal decisions than to anything else (taking a break from school to raise a child, for instance).

Professional opportunities exist aplenty in the sciences regardless of gender... though I will note that having to pay people who aren't working stings for a lot of people, and women can easily incur that risk through pregnancy. Sure, it's one thing to be happy for them... but it's another thing to run and manage a business.

I am rarely, if ever, invited into the field to collect samples for the DOT. This is despite the fact that I am going to be the one processing them. Professional engineering societies are largely populated by men, and the ones I've tried to get involved in have been....less than welcoming.

And nursing societies are dominated by women. We come very close to evening out... and more women than ever are becoming engineers, and more men than ever are becoming nurses.

Nothing needs to be done, as these disparities will cure themselves.