The Association of Women in Science have just relesed their "2011 Snapshot of Women in Science". The statistics are pretty sobering, and I wondering what makes them so? What are the fundamental underliers of these statistics? Where I work in the Science Faculty there are 7 female professors, in my School alone there are 9 male professors.
Is it really as simple as issues of families? It is hard to break into a male dominated environment? I don't think either of those is true since conutries such as Spain, France and Portugal have higher numbers of women in science?
So why don't we?
