> Intelligence is equally distributed between genders, but most professional physicists are men,
Why limit yourself to gender? Why not white vs other skin color? Why not the US vs another country? Why not democrat vs republicans? Why not western culture vs whatever other culture? Seriously, this kind of categorization is just ridiculous, especially when you speculate instead of showing evidence.
No, I won't be surprised if a STEM professor is reading topology. I will be surprised if a gender-study professor is reading topology. I will be also surprised if some stranger (i.e. I don't know the background of this person) who could only do pre-algebra in high school says Topology without Tears is the first book on Topology that they read and they immediately fall in love with topology. Possible, for sure. Surprising, of course. It's just a matter of probability.
I'm not sure what objection is being made. We know that there are lots and lots of women who could be physicists but decided not to. You don't stop existing when you don't get labeled, but you do start surprising people who expect you to have been.
>The researchers say that as last author is usually associated with seniority, based on this data, their model predicts that it will be 258 years before the gender ratio of senior physicists comes within 5% of parity.
Why limit yourself to gender? Why not white vs other skin color? Why not the US vs another country? Why not democrat vs republicans? Why not western culture vs whatever other culture? Seriously, this kind of categorization is just ridiculous, especially when you speculate instead of showing evidence.
No, I won't be surprised if a STEM professor is reading topology. I will be surprised if a gender-study professor is reading topology. I will be also surprised if some stranger (i.e. I don't know the background of this person) who could only do pre-algebra in high school says Topology without Tears is the first book on Topology that they read and they immediately fall in love with topology. Possible, for sure. Surprising, of course. It's just a matter of probability.