How come women are underrepresented in the physical sciences and engineering?

Engineering is a very practical, rational, and demanding major. Women are the complete opposite of what an engineer is. They are emotional, less competitive, scatter minded.

(There are exceptions). Hence that is why women outnumber men as college students, yet are still fairly underrepresented in the the engineering departments (As well as the applied sciences such as chemistry and physics). Even if there is affirmative action, engineering will always be a subject dominated by men.

Men are just more geared towards hard-core mathematics and engineering. Another factor that might contribute is that most engineer majors are geeky and nerdy...something that turns off most women.

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