Publication Date:
2011-05-25
Description:
Drago (1) makes a number of good points about the need to consider historical trends and culture in understanding women's underrepresentation in math-intensive fields. We agree with some of these points and have no position on others. Nevertheless, we want to point out that the main point—that we should consider historical and cultural influences in sex segregation—is something that we have done consistently in our publications on this topic, including this one (2–4). In online SI Text accompanying our article, we reiterated a point we have made in numerous past articles, namely, that sex cannot be considered in isolation from...
Keywords:
Letters
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General