The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

[Ms. Toad]

36. Because women are (still) expected to teach, rather than do, in the math and sciences realm

As a woman, it is often easier to get a job teaching math and science than it is to get a job doing math and science.

I taught high school math and computer science (and physics for one year0. There were more women than men. Computer science - equal. Physics - I was replaced by a man who was already on staff who had never taught physics before and had enough hours of college credits, but not a degree - as I do (my suspicion is that was because of the sexism of the head of the science department).

But shift to real world, where my experience is as a patent attorney (higher paid, more prestigious, and requires a science degree) - more than 9/10 in every CLE I have attended is male.