Physics

Why are there so few women in Physics?

"Women in Physics and Astronomy, 2005" a report sponsored by AIP.

One of the conclusions...
"Examination of the academic “pipeline” reveals that women disproportionately
leave physics between taking it in high school and earning a bachelor’s degree.
While almost half of high school physics students are girls, less that one-fourth
of bachelor’s degrees in physics are earned by women. After this initial “leak”
in the pipeline, women are represented at about the levels we would expect
based on degree production in the past. There appears to be no leak in
the pipeline at the faculty level in either physics or astronomy."

Check out the rest of the report at: http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/reports/women05.pdf

I was the only female physics major throughout my undergraduate education. Then I went into astronomy and now I am a librarian. I guess I leaked. Go figure...