More on women in veterinary medicine

[ganohock]

Some while back I wrote a post asking why there are so many more women than men in veterinary medicine. Recently, that post received a comment from Anne Lincoln, whose research into exactly that subject has just been published. Her findings are summarized at Eurekalert. You should read that summary, but in short:

Women now dominate the field of

Comments

[kmonlift]

The next step is to say the difference (between men and women in science) in dozen's of more ways, new ways, more and more of the picture emerging.

Like in math, I used to have only male students, but when I discovered that every time someone balks at something you're trying to show them, it's for an *intelligent* reason, something that can be formed as a *valid* objection, within a couple years all my students were women. (The downside, and what women can fix next, was that I was the one pointing this out to them, articulating their most internal mind in a way they couldn't (didn't), so that all the soul-eating insecurities came out.)

Almost all of the difficulties of math fall neatly under the Hindu picture of Maya--dualistic strategies that lead you back to non-dualism from the sheer pain of their failure--like the nose-bleeds from unit conversions or coordinate changes--'wait, does the number get bigger or smaller???'--or even just having to count to see if 'July 4-8' is four days or five. It's a humbling of pride, the man who conquers the world with dualistic thinking breaking his skull on it.