A new Yale study has revealed that there is a pervasive and unconscious bias on university campuses that favors male science students over their female counterparts. The result is fewer women in scientific professions. And as a recent Sunday Review article pointed out, it’s not just in science where women are underrepresented, electrical engineering, a huge growth industry, is dominated by men.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/09/30/breaking-the-bias-against-women-in-science/