Women Aren’t Choosing Math and Science...Because They’re Boy-Crazy?

Is this article for real? It reeks of a desperate attempt to gain credibility among readers by citing the author who is supposedly a PhD. Even if she were, it doesn't mean her reasoning couldn't be fallible. In fact, it pretty much screams of logical fallacy, particularly of hasty generalization, basing a broad conclusion on a small sample. There may be other reasons why women don't go into math careers- if that is indeed the case- which may be more relevant than romantic reasons. When young girls decide if they like or don't like math/science, romance doesn't play any part in their decision-making process, but good/encouraging or bad teachers do play a big role.

? Why would a job effect romance? My aunt is a university professor in math and is happily married to my science obsess uncle. He loves her because she had ambition to become a professor. She told me that she's had tones of boyfriends because of her smarts.

I really don't think that a study of 350 women out of a population of 3.15 Billion is in the least scientific or statistically meaningfull.

My sister is a doctor, she is 32 and still nowhere near ready (in terms of career) to get married or start a family; she and her boyfriend have been together for six years and there's still no wedding anywhere in the horizon as they both claim that she needs to have her own practice before they can start thinking about marriage and kids....Seriously? I couldn't imagine having to wait until my mid-to-late thirties to have kids, at 24 I have 3 kids (expecting our fourth) an undergraduate degree and a promising career that pays well and offers great benefits and opportunity to climb the corporate ladder. I couldn't have all that if I had gone into the Empirical Sciences.

Picking a job because of romance?? What century am I in?!?!? I thought women were equals!! Have I fallen back in time (again)? Do women just go to college to meet their future husbands??? If women ARE doing this, then they deserve to make less money and they deserve to get fewer promotions! But I suspect that real intelligent, like the one who raised me, would laugh at this article!

If she has nice breasts and great legs...no one cares

this article says little that we didn't already know, what it doesn't talk about are the sort of women who they interviewed who were not going into a field of science or math...yes I am classifying women....personally I find women with ambition more attractive than some dead head, skeleton. all that they are saying is that the majority of women would rather get by on looks than to create a future for themselves...which is the most simplified way of stating this article

and we already knew that, but like I said before I am more attracted to the woman with ambition, so there will always be the 20% there to make them all look good...god forbid women judged men solely on Kevin Federline or Kanye West

nor should we judge them on Kate Gosselin or Justin Bieber

bunch of prostitude

I think women are still choosing math and science but a few numbers.. most of the engineering field are 80 percent dominated by men and other Manly fields!. but you haven't talked about the dominated fields of women, like Bachelor Science of NURSING most of this is dominated by women almost 90 percent when I studied nursing we were 5 men subtract 2 because 2 of them are gays(nothing personal) and 40 women.. other fields that women dominate are Tourism! some pharmacy field..

I think most women avoid blow jobs but on the other side of the coin some women are good at blow jobs.

hahah my cat could write a better article... what do u think women are bad in math and science and just want to pop out babies and go on dates? I think theres a lot of problems in society but I dont think its because our heads are in the clouds

bullshit, women are all about looks & money, or just money

I can understand how this happens and I know how lonely and hostile it can be in a profession as a gender minority. I'm a man who attended and graduated from a beauty college in the field of esthetics. I've never found work in my field of study and I've since pursued other areas of employment. Women were hostile and rude towards me, often telling me how 'I'd never get hired because I'm not a woman' and I was treated as a second class citizen throughout my entired period of study by the instructors, cosmetic reps and visiting speakers and clients.
There are no women today who can rightfully convince me that they have been discriminated or that the workplace is sexist towards women after the way I was treated and abused within the beauty industry. I know exactly how it feels and two wrongs will never make a right.

haha

NONSENSE! Despite decades of women's libbers pushing math and science on girls, the fact remains that most women are not good in those fields. And very, very few guys want to become social(ist) workers and nurses. There are differences between male and female, and those differences will manifest themselves in many ways, from the cognitive to the physiological to the behavioural, no matter what feminazis wish.

a hot study partner? yes, I would love more women in the maths and sciences, there is no shortage of guys present, the ladies would have their pick of the lot

Women should flood the math and science field because there are so many extremely smart guys and less competition. I'm in the computer engineer program and there's like 5 girls and 30 guys in a class. Girls get special treatments and attention. Because of this study groups and team work is rather interesting.

From working in the biochem research field - I know why I quit. First, working in a lab, all day long, by yourself? It's lonely as all hell, even if the science and research itself is interesting. Second, the hours are absolutely killer - I put in upwards of 60 hours a week for less than $40,000 a year. And you have to pay your dues in jobs like that in order to advance to a more senior research position, or to get tenure at a university. But I wanted to have kids - and I wanted to raise them myself, not hand them off to a nanny or daycare. So, I quit, and got a job with the government that paid the same, but was only 37.5 hours a week, involved time with other people and allowed me to spend some time with my family. Jobs in science and tech, I think partially because they've been male dominated until now, lend themselves to cultures where people are encouraged to become workaholics - work literally takes over your life. I think there are just less women willing to distort their work-life balance so heavily into "work", even if they enjoy the science.

women don't go in to math science because they choose not to.

men take chances and women don't generally speaking. that is required in this field.

Clearly literacy is an issue for both men and women. The core of this story is not saying women are bad at math and science or that they can't get dates if they are in science. It is saying women have a perception in their head that they are less likely to be dated if they go into math or science. This could be because of the work hours or a lack of maternity leave benefits or who knows what. All this article says is that women believe they are less attractive if they're in this field. The writer then poses two questions: do men share this perception? Do women avoid getting a job in science so it's easier to date? The question is not how many girls are in science in university and the article does not say women can't do science.