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Anna Kushnir, PhD wrote a letter to wired science.

Why Are Senior Female Scientists So Heavily Outnumbered by Men?

Take my graduate school for example: My class was made up of eight people — seven women and one man, or 7 to 1. He was Snow White and we were the seven dwarves — each with a remarkably appropriate nickname. I was Grumpy, should you be curious to know.

Snow White and at least four of the dwarves have continued on to postdoctoral research jobs. That is a 4 to 3 ratio of women who went on to do a post-doc to those that chose alternate career paths.

Everything is adding up so far, right? Lots of women are around. Lots of science is being done. All is well.

The next set of numbers is slightly puzzling, however. That is the ratio of female to male professors in our department, at a well-respected academic institution, is 48 to 7 men to women.

Interesting reversal, isn’t it? We go from 7 to 1 in grad school to roughly 1 to 7 in professorships.

Perhaps the only way to solve this problem is made men pregnant.

John made a catchy comment, “Funny Anna thinks its fine for the grad program to be almost all women, but not okay for the senior professors to be mostly men.”

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Did your mother alwyas nag you and you can’t even spoke back? While you mom is nagging, your dad remains silent? This gives you the thinking that woman talks more than man? Dude, you are wrong, and it’s proven by researchers from univeristy of Texas.

In general, they found that women tend to talk more about relationships. Their everyday conversation is more studded with pronouns. Men tend to talk more about sports and gadgets, and their utterances include more numbers.

—— NPR: Study: Men Talk Just as Much as Women

Maybe after your mom finished, you may turn and kick your dog to release your anger, and the words you spoken to your dog might be as much as what your mom nagged you. Haha, just kidding.

Politicians are one good example of talkative men, they talked, mostly crap, and i guess more than their wives. But one thing i must tell the guys, women share things, so when you are telling your beloved one something, don’t expect her to keep it as secret, women share among women.

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