That Sound You Hear
It's women bumping up against the glass ceiling. Sara Rimer writes about the question of women in math and sciences in
this Times article.
Key quote: " Even as the number of women earning Ph.D.'s in science has substantially increased - women now account for 45 percent to 50 percent of the biology doctorates, and 33 percent of those in chemistry - the science and engineering faculties of elite research universities remain overwhelmingly male. And the majority of the women are clustered at the junior faculty rank."
Rimer explains some of the reasons why; she does not mention "intrinsic differences" in aptitude.