Writer Virginia Valian of Chapter one in Why Aren’t More Women In Science talks about whether women are truly less capable and talented than men. She brings up theories, social schema, and statistics to analyze why men ar…
By: Shannon Laughlin
The first of many essays written to tackle the question “Why aren’t more women in science?” featured in Ceci and Williams book of the same name is by Virginia Valian, a distinguished professor and psychologist. She titles her…
Being a professional, career-driven woman in today’s society comes with a enormous set of challenges that our male counterparts never have to face. Women and men don’t even start out the race to the top on the same track; it seems that wom…
Writer Virginia Valian of Chapter one in Why Aren’t More Women In Science talks about whether women are truly less capable and talented than men. She brings up theori…
Women rarely make it to the top of the career ladder. Far fewer women seek PhD’s in science compared to men not because they are not capable, but because both men and women underrate women’s abilities to succeed in a professional setting. Societal…
Virginia Valian probes the question of why aren’t more women in science through her essay Women at the Top in Science – And Elsewhere. She opens by explaining the misconception that there is not simply a lack of women at the top of the natural …
Women & Science: the Perspective of an Evolutionist
There’s this topic. A topic that is talked about the least but tremendously important in the progression of society and today’s economics. This is the topic of under-representation of w…
The Root of the Problem
By: Chelsea Eareckson
Differences exist between genders. That is a biological fact. Women and men are composed of different but equally complex body systems that allow our great race to grow and thrive. Both sexes are vit…
As someone who’s going to be going to work in the shockingly near future, I want to be able to do well and have a promising career. In a society that puts heavy emphasis on equality with the need to be politically correct and the enforcement of d…
In Women At the Top in Science, Valian explicitly explores the reasons why women have underrepresentation in almost every field, and, specifically the mathematic and scientific sections. After politely declining two possibilities of biological based d…