There is a huge push by universities and industry to push women into math and science. The perception feminists like to paint is that the sciences are male dominated because they bar women from entering the profession. That may have been true in year 1800 and 1900, but not the year 2000.
Then the feminists blamed the classroom culture of bullying teenage boys as why women did not enter math and science. Even though studies have shown time after time that girls do just as well at math and science as boys whether boys are present or not.
Then feminists blamed culture for the reason why women do not enter math and science fields because society forced girls to play with dolls rather than participate in sports, as if sports are responsible for the academic success of physics professors. Yea, right!
A recent survey came out with a study that showed women do not go into the math and sciences because they don’t like it. Women prefer more social occupations. It is not the difficulty as women have entered the medial fields (medical equipment operators, nurses, doctors, pharmacy etc) in huge numbers, which is very math and science heavy, but is also seen as a social profession. What drives women to prefer social orientated professions is up for debate (nature /nurture). The fact is while there may be not as many women in the field of chemistry than men; women outnumber men in the field of pharmacy. Both fields require the same skill sets and are interrelated. To say women can’t or barred from these professions is disingenuous.