Anon, the bio fields--including virology, infectious disease, etc--are now populated equally by gender distribution. Especially incoming classes; if anything, my graduate school interviews (Ph.D. various microbiology/molecular biology umbrellas) were skewed female, maybe 60/40. Hell, at one (very highly-ranked school) we had 20 women and 3 men interviewing. Granted, this is in the United States, so I cannot speak to the trends in other places
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Law would be one field where the Ph.D. / climbing the career ladder seems to be balancing out, with a lot of women having children *and* the career. I expect we'll see more and more female judges (baby lawyers become judges, sometimes), and hopefully more female politicians (again, baby lawyers become politicians).
I was just going to say this. I work in a large company as a geneticist and in the virology/retro department it's actually 60/40 with slightly more women.
Incidentally i became a scientist interested in genetics because i read a series of 'deepwater' books as a teenager that made me intrigued about the whole idea.
So long as you actually enjoy it/can do it...who cares what your inspiration is? I mean - unless *you* want to be the one making the T-virus, i think it'd be a fun way to tell people why you want to do it.
I know i would say that *all the time* - 'because of zombie apocalypse!!'
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Funding is tight everywhere, but there are multiple virology projects that receive equal attention as HIV projects.
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..and I agree with you, microbiology is really, really interested. I'm not sure why anybody wouldn't want to go into that field..
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Incidentally i became a scientist interested in genetics because i read a series of 'deepwater' books as a teenager that made me intrigued about the whole idea.
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I know i would say that *all the time* - 'because of zombie apocalypse!!'
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pretty much my reaction to everything.
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