Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year there are about 140 math concentrators, according to department undergraduate studies coordinator Svetlana Alpert. Less than 30 percent of those 140 are women, she says...
...math department faculty is also largely male: only five of the 36 teachers in the department are women. None of the department's 16 tenured professors are women...
Professors say there's no conclusive reason for the dearth of women in math...
...There's been a great deal of discussion to try to come to some conclusion as to why it is, but I have not heard a convincing explanation," says Robinson Professor of Mathematics Wilfried Schmid, who teaches Math 55. In that class, he says, everyone was admitted based solely on an objectively-scored test and two homework assignments...
...gender imbalance in math may simply reflect a larger societal problem, says Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies...