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This has been a hot topic ever since former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers said last year that the lack of women in upper-division science and math fields was due to an intellectual difference for women, especially in mathematics. The report dismissed this idea by highlighting the fact that cognitive differences were small and irrelevant.

The numbers of women in academia, let alone science and math disciplines, have increased. More than 57 percent of bachelors’ degrees in the U.S. are received by women, and 42.6 percent by men. Women have come a long way in the university setting, and in 1970 these percentages were almost reversed. According to the report, for the past 30 years, women have earned more than 30 percent of doctorates in social and behavioral sciences, and at least 20 percent of the doctorates in life sciences. But in the professor setting, these numbers are nowhere near reflected at about half of those levels. Women professors from minority groups are virtually absent.

But where is the disconnect?