The School of Engineering was generally worse than the School of Science, though Computer Science was comparable. As these older professors have retired, the climate for women must have improved to the point that the women faculty could finally air complaints that no doubt had been festering for decades. So it is likely the report has a certain amount of bias. As to why women are underrepresented at the top levels of science and mathematics, I can only speak from personal experience. When I was 9, my teacher told me I couldn't do mathematics because I was a girl.
Few girls find the intellectual beauties of mathematics worth such a social price.
I can only hope that girls today experience fewer such barriers. Kat Daley I am a woman with a Ph.D. in physics which collects dust on a shelf. I tend to agree with those who explain the lack of women in science as a consequence of the culture of science. Financial rewards are nonexistent. The lifestyle is stressful, constraining and not well rounded.