Women In Science Education

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environment are the main obstacles to women in science.
In 1929, Virginia Woolf wrote that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" (4). In the same vein, this paper argues that young women need support from family as well as society to enable them to pursue careers in the sciences. Towards this goal, addressing the historic imbalance in the education between girls and boys remains the key.

Women's role in society nowadays

Across the world, the secondary position of women in society remains a virtual constant. This preferential treatment for men is embedded in social and political structures in various countries and societies. In many societies, women are akin to property, and do not have any rights to education, inheritance or to work outside the home.
In the United States, legislation geared towards non-discrimination, human rights and equal treatment have made such overt discrimination against women things of the past. ...

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male accountants (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
These gaps persist across other professions as well. A University of Michigan study tracking the career of 1,226 physicians trained at their medical school over a 10 year period found that female physicians occupied lower status positions and earned less pay (cited in Gibelman). Women in state and local government likewise earn only 80 to 90 percent of men's salaries (cited in Gibelman).
The gender wage gap continues to persist across a diversity of occupations, after controlling for factors like age and education levels. Clearly, gender plays a key role in determining a person's salary.
Despite the growing number of women working ...

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