On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:22:29 GMT, "Ray Gordon" 
wrote:

>> WOMEN AND MINORITIES IN SCIENCE
>> Prospects for women and minority doctoral scientists in
>> engineering and other math-intensive areas are examined.
>> A calculation of the ethnic-gender profile of this segment
>> of the workforce is made for U.S. citizens and permanent
>> residents. Rank ordering on mathematical reasoning ability
>> predicts that women will top off at approximately 27 percent
>> of this market. Similarly, rank ordering predicts almost
>> 99 percent of math-intensive doctoral jobs will go to whites
>> and Asians of primarily Chinese, Japanese, Korean and South
>> Asian descent. Asians will continue to be represented in
>> these fields well beyond their numbers in the general
>> population. A study of the math-intensive academic
>> marketplace predicts that women will top off there at
>> about 22 to 23 percent.
>
>You obviously haven't studied Eastern Europe, where a large number of women
>are scientists.

A large number of women in the US are scientists also.

>
>The rewards for being a scientist are much greater there for women than they
>are in a country like this one.
>
I doubt it, else US women scientists would be moving there.

>


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