Chia-Chen Wu Project Description Welcome to the Women and Science page of the world wide web. As part of a final project for a Women's Studies course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we chose to explore the reasons why women are less likely to enter professions in math and science, and we would like to act as student voices to let you know how beneficial it would be for society and the continuous advancement of women if more women were involved in these the sciences.
Girls say they enjoy math in earlier grades, but tend to shy away in adolescence.
However, as many girls as boys now take advanced math classes in high school and major in math almost as often in college. A the graduate level, however, the number of women entering math programs drops off significantly. The change doesn t occur in graduate school, though. During the elementary years, females tend to be praised for their neat handwriting and appearance of assignments while boys are judged more on the actual content. Boys tend to speak as they think, which explains teachers quick recognition of male students.