There are13 males for every 1 female. Cultural influences may well play a part in this extreme disparity. Still, even in Asian families, noted for encouraging both male and female children to choose scientific careers, males are four times more likely to score at the extremes. Given the tendency of males to occupy the extremes, both the bottom of the barrel and the top of the heap, it should surprise no one that the faculty of the MIT School of Science is mostly male. Of course, some women will appear at the top.
Women are clearly among the top scientists in the world.
But males would outnumber them by wide margins without any gender discrimination at all. Testosterone, Estrogen, and Talents Males and females are far more alike than they are different in intellectual abilities, but there are certain, quite fascinating exceptions. Females typically excel in verbal skills. At the end of high school, for example, females as a group have a substantial advantage in writing ability. That women are surging into law school is far from surprising.