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...growing numbers, women are taking hard science courses in an attempt to meet pre-med requirements. Last year’s president of Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR), Wenya L. Bi ’02, says that in her experience, the number of women in introductory science courses almost equals the number of men, though the number of women begins to dwindle once courses move beyond the level of pre-med requirements. Yet many women do choose to concentrate in a hard science—particularly chemistry. Women make up 50 percent of the chemistry concentrators...
...motivation for women is that the concentration enables them to “keep one foot in the door of science” while investigating the subject from a more humanities-like social and cultural perspective, Kenen says. Specifically, Kenen says history and science attracts a lot of pre-meds interested in fulfilling their scientific requirements in a unique way. “Many women who study history of science find it a comfortable environment that allows them to fulfill pre-med requirements within a broader framework,” says Lucy R. Stackpool-Moore...
...science concentrations that don’t satisfy pre-med requirements, the number of women does not match the chemistry department’s total. In computer science, for example, there are just 31 women amongst some 200 concentrators—15 percent. “Harvard’s story is not significantly different than nationwide trends,” says Steven J. Gortler, associate professor of computer science...
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Currier housed a large portion of the pre-med population, while Quincy attracted many hard science concentrators. Lowell and Dunster House were also traditionally studious...