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For years, researchers have struggled to understand why so many women leave careers in science and engineering. Theories run the gamut, from family-unfriendly work schedules to innate differences between the genders. A new paper by McGill University economist Jennifer Hunt offers another explanation: women leave such jobs when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Women Leave the Engineering Field | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

That's not simply because women are exiting the workforce to raise families: even women who continue to work leave engineering at a higher than expected rate. About 21% of all graduates surveyed were working in a field unrelated to their highest college degree. That proportion held steady for both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Women Leave the Engineering Field | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

A number of big banks have launched female mentoring networks, notes Hunt. If part of the problem in a male-dominated environment is that it's more difficult for women to network - grabbing a beer at a sports bar after work may appeal more to one gender than to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Women Leave the Engineering Field | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

The tough thing about writing about Apple products is that they come with a lot of hype wrapped around them. The other tough thing about writing about Apple products is that sometimes the hype is true. So let's scrape the Vaseline off the lens and figure out what exactly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do We Need the iPad? A TIME Review | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

The iPad does a lot - Web browsing, e-mail, photos, music, movies, games, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, e-books - but you'll notice that it doesn't do anything your other devices don't, and in many cases your other devices do those things better. The difference lies in what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do We Need the iPad? A TIME Review | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

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