Daphne:
I'm not sure when you were in high school but it's disconcerting that, if this was just in the last few years, your counselor wouldn't have a better understanding of the gender-stereotyped curricula. Our text also refers to the fact that the higher-level the educational institution the more male the faculty it. This would account for a lot of the gender-stereotyping in advising but you had a woman!I know my oldest daughter, Kelli, is a senior Meteorology major which has been traditionally a male field for two reasons. One is the overwhelming amount of math and science courses and the second is that a lot of females who begin in that major drop out. her experience has been that she has had to fight harder for help when she's struggling and is not given the same encouragement as the male students. Although she's been tempted to change majors on more than one occasion, sometimes because of treatment by professors, she's stuck with it. By the way, she has only one female professor for any of her major-related math and science courses!!
Dori
May 30, 2008 12:14 PM