Thanks.
No really, I just wrote a paper on women in science and technology, and the numbers are pretty intense.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute is 76% male, 24% female. Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute is 75% male, 25% female. Rochester Institute of Technology is 69% male, 31% female. (U.S. News, 193-219) In the year 2000, 20.5% of students receiving bachelors degrees in engineering were female.
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In the 2002-2003 school year 44.5% of medical school graduates were women.
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So the numbers of women in engineering are not growing at the same rate that the numbers of women in medicine are growing. I think that FIRST is a wonderful program as for a promoting interest in science and technology. I didn't even consider being an engineer until I joined my team. (Syracuse University L.C. Smith College of Engineering & Computer Science, Class of 2010, almost definitely at this point)
Our team is proud to have a female driver this year.
