It's all in the brain (Score 1)

A recent article in Time Magazine presents a fairly relevent story, concerning the lack of women in math and science-related fields (the full story is only available to subscribers). What's a possible biological reason? The brains of girls and guys develop differently. Though most parts of the brain develop faster in girls, the parts of guys' brains that deal with mechanical and spatial reasoning, and visual targeting, etc., mature faster in guys. In schools, however, boys and girls are taught together, and as if their brains develop the same ways and at the same speeds. When kids are told to do things not appropriate for their development, they fail, and also just stop liking whatever the subject is. Then you get girls who dislike math and science, and boys who hate reading -- and won't go back on that. Physician and psychologist Leonard Sax, author of the book Why Gender Matters sums it up:

"The reason women are underrepresented in computer science and engineering is not because they can't do it. It's because of the way they're taught."

Though I'm personally not out of high school yet, I suppose I'm an oddball girl who didn't follow the pattern, as those are the two fields I'm looking into. ;)