SURPRISING BUT TRUE
- In
high school, 70% of second year physics students are male.
- By
third grade, 51% of boys and 37% of girls have used a microscope in class.
- By
eleventh grade, 49% of boys and 17% of girls have used an electric motor in
class.
- Colleges
will need to produce four times as many graduates in computer science as
they do now to meet the current demand.
- Only
9% of engineers are women.
- Compared
to girls, boys receive more toys related to math and science.
- Girls
in sixth and seventh grades rate being popular and well liked as more
important than being perceived as competent or independent.
- Media
images of female scientists and engineers are rare.
- Developmentally,
girls take the lead; they talk, read and count earlier than boys.
- More
than one in four high school math teachers and nearly one in five high
school science teachers lack even a minor in their main teaching field.
- Male
college students are twice as likely as females to rate their computer
skills as above average and five times more likely to opt for careers in
Computer Science.
(Imaginary Lines, 2001)
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