Hey all,

how many female/ male co-workers or co-students do you have in your class, company?


In belgium almost all the biochemical, biotechnology and medical biology courses are filled with females.
(50% ratio and sometimes even 65-75% women)
(ex. biotechnology (biochemical) engineering, biotechnology ,and medical biotechnology especially. And specifically for the courses that are research orientated or to become a teacher, the industrial paths seem to attrackt more males.)
In my case: 12 students during the last year of education and 4 male, 8 female.

I wonder if it is in your country too?

Strangely at later stage (work, research and even to get a phd the women seem to be vanished: not a lot of women in research nor education.
(compared with the ratio during university at bachelor master stage)

9M : 3 F

Nabi on Mar 31 2009, 07:42 PM said:

at work or at school?

It seems strange but at work there are more men then women (research or production or even teaching) here while at university there are more women in the specific domain.

Overall, in our institute, the balance is pretty even. On a lab-by-lab basis, however, the bias ranges from 100% female to 80% male (only the PI is female).

In medical school, 50% male and 50% female students.

In research Institute, 80% female 20% male.
But in PI level, 80% male and 20% female.

Nabi on Apr 1 2009, 02:42 AM said:

Our lab has changed ratio's today- 3M: 7F (of which 3 of us are PhD/Postdoc). At the senior level no females are professors in my department, I think I'm the furthest up the chain infact. All the technicians are women in our department and only 3 female PhD students in whole department.... equal rights has a long way to go here I think.

pito on Apr 1 2009, 03:03 AM said:

Sorry. Wrote that in hurry.
(New Data)
1F-Lab Manager and Research Assoc(technician), 1F Research Assoc (tech), 1M Prof (MD-PhD), 4M (MD-PhD), 1F (MD-PhD Student), 6M (MD-PhD student)

Nabi on Mar 31 2009, 06:19 PM said:

Are you one of the MD-PhD student?

Minnie Mouse on Apr 1 2009, 12:04 PM said:

Bull's eye!

That's realy a high ratio. Probably girls like biology more than boys?