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  2. From: nissim@mary.fordham.EDU ("Leonard J. Nissim")
  3. Subject: Re: Camille Paglia is GOD! was Re: camille paglia
  4. Nntp-Posting-Host: alexandre-dumas.ics.uci.edu
  5. Message-ID: <17NOV199214461981@mary.fordham.edu>
  6. Newsgroups: soc.feminism
  7. Organization: Fordham University
  8. Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu
  9. Lines: 61
  10. Date: 18 Nov 92 22:47:34 GMT
  11. References: <1dv7hnINNa6@agate.berkeley.edu> <Bxnw1G.39w@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  12.  
  13. In article <Bxnw1G.39w@news.cso.uiuc.edu>,
  14. levine@symcom.math.uiuc.EDU (Lenore Levine) writes...
  15. [intermediate post and some of L. Levine's deleted]
  16. >
  17. >What about her [Paglia's] comments about mathematics?
  18. >Saying that the historical
  19. >almost complete absence of women from research mathematics is not
  20. >likely to (or shouldn't) change. Saying that mathematics represents a
  21. >"masculine" way of thinking.
  22. >
  23. >Most research mathematicians would very strongly disagree with her!
  24. >
  25. >Lenore Levine
  26. >
  27. >P.S. I would very much like to see Camille Paglia explain why
  28. >the derivative of x^2 is 2x. Or Timothy Leary write a program
  29. >in Pascal...
  30. >
  31. >Then I'd take those techno-"visionaries" much more seriously.
  32. >
  33.  
  34. The acquisition of a Ph.D. in mathematics may be taken as serious interest
  35. in becoming a research mathematician, although not all go on to do so.
  36. The American Mathematical Society has been keeping data on American citizens
  37. who do get a Ph.D. in math *by gender* since the 1973-74 academic year.
  38.  
  39. The trend of this data supports L. Levine; it is taken from the November 1992
  40. issue of "Notices of the American Mathematical Society":
  41.  
  42. Academic Year    Total new PhD's     Women     Women as % of total
  43. -------------    ---------------     -----     -------------------
  44. 1973-74             677                59          9%
  45. 1974-75             741                83         11%
  46. 1975-76             722                86         12%
  47. 1976-77             689                87         13%
  48. 1977-78             634                89         14%
  49. 1978-79             596                93         16%
  50. 1979-80             578                87         15%
  51. 1980-81             567               102         18%
  52. 1981-82             519                88         17%
  53. 1982-83             455                89         20%
  54. 1983-84             433                87         20%
  55. 1984-85             396                81         20%
  56. 1985-86             386                82         21%
  57. 1986-87             362                73         20%
  58. 1987-88             363                76         21%
  59. 1988-89             411                98         24%
  60. 1989-90             401                89         22%
  61. 1990-91             461               112         24%
  62. 1991-92             430               103         24%
  63.  
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  65. Leonard J. Nissim  (nissim@mary.fordham.edu)
  66. Disclaimer:  "I speak only for myself."
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