aidan wrote:Do you think men are innately more curious about all that than women- given the fact that there are probably ten male astronauts for every one female?
Nope...If that statistic is accurate, then I think that it is just ten times harder for a woman to be accepted into such a program.
I have my degree in mathematics. While I was in school, I cannot even begin to tell you how difficult it was to get people (professors as well as colleagues) to take me seriously, probably because (a) I'm a woman and (b) I'm not a geeky woman.
So, the first day of classes, people (even other women) assumed I was an airhead. And I had to justify myself every second. In the end, though, it was always doubly satisfying to have the highest scores. :wink: