[eli_gottlieb]

I'm in grad school at the moment, and it sounds to me like you're describing another planet from the one I live on. My entire lab has one woman in it, and nobody's come around to punish us or anything. Hell, I'm not just male, I'm white and male. I'm not even gay! My ethnicity (Jews) are over-represented in science.

What sort of data have you collected, or received in summarized form, to come to these conclusions of yours?

[khitan]

Biology as a field ranges from majority female to 1:1 parity in the modern postgraduate cohorts I have seen; the physical and logical sciences at the postgraduate maintain large male imbalances and notably seem to do so across all western countries regardless of social ideology from the figures I have seen across various sources. It is true in my observation that gender-specific encouragements are consistently emphasized at the university level even oddly in scenarios where parity has been reached or exceeded.