It didn t make a difference to me. But he also said, It s just not very likely that they would be able to handle it. Women are genetically not as smart as men. He believes that there are not as many women in science because they are not as smart as men. I think that their whole lives, girls are discouraged not only from pursuing science, but they are discouraged from even being interested in it.
Women everywhere feel that they are out of place in a field of math, science, or technology.
My department is about half and half, so I feel perfectly comfortable being here and being a woman. There are even some prestigious women professors to look up to. But when I went out into the real world this summer to work in industry, I was shocked. I was the only woman in the entire research group. It was difficult to get used to.