Are women bad at science?

If you scroll through lists of STEM faculty members at most universities, it's likely you'll recognize a pattern...that is, a lot of men and not very many women. Why is that? Are men inherently better than women at science? Or is there something else going on? Well strap in because we're about to find out! National Girls Collaborative Project: http://ngcproject.org/ National Math and Science Initiative: https://www.nms.org/ Women In Engineering ProActive Network: https://www.wepan.org/ Million Women Mentors: https://www.millionwomenmentors.com/ American Association of University Women: https://www.aauw.org/ The Scientista Foundation: http://www.scientistafoundation.com/ Association for Women in Science: https://www.awis.org/ Shoutout to all the women who sent in videos to make the end of this video possible, including: Jolyn Wirshing Nahayvee Rosiles Amy McKenna Sheryl Hosler Leanne Perez Rachana Tank Molly Edwards Ana Pamela Chavarría Elizabeth Leger Julie Maryniak Christine Mendelsohn Christine Malone Jennifer Endries Jackie Heling Kelley Stewart Sources: Neuro grads: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... STEM edu gender gap: http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcren... Gender math abilities: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... STEM enrollment: https://edsource.org/2017/girls-now-o... Ancient Chemists: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhib... Convents: http://server.fhp.uoregon.edu/dtu/sit... Astronomy: https://www.hsu.edu/academicforum/200... Maliva Meric: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/... Rosalind Franklin: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retri... Microsoft: https://news.microsoft.com/features/w... Student bias: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art... Faculty bias: https://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/1... LOR bias: https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/20... Publication bias: http://theconversation.com/perish-not... Funding bias: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/... Women leaving STEM after kids: https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158... Childcare burden: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2... Diversity is good for STEM: https://www.spsnational.org/the-sps-o... Patreon:   / neurotransmissions   Twitter:   / neuroyoutube   Facebook:   / neurotransmissions   Instagram:   / neurotransmissions   Reddit:   / neuroyoutube   Website: http://www.neurotransmissions.science Snapchat: neuroyoutube This episode is supported by our wonderful Patreon Producers: Ryan M. Shaver Carrie McKenzie Corvi You three are the bomb dot com! You’re like that feeling you get when you put on a fresh pair of wool socks. And thanks to our other supportive Patrons, including: Marcelo Kenji Brian McComb Gary Rick Harold Mary Smith Jareth Arnold Linda L Schubert Raymond Chin Ktb City Beautiful Up and Atom Memming Park Alex Dainis Susan Jones Eric Earley Dr. Ali Mattu Linh Vandermar Stephen Smith Noah McCann Marcel Ward Ilsa Jerome Neuro Transmissions is a channel on a mission to bring neuroscience to everyone. It's not rocket surgery, it's brain science! Subscribe for new brain videos every other Sunday! Got a question for us to answer? Let us know in the comments - we’d love to explore more of your questions! Share, like, and subscribe for more videos to come! Over and out. **Credits** The following images were used for educational purposes: http://dataphys.org/list/wp-content/u... http://denstoredanske.dk/@api/deki/fi... https://i.imgur.com/8g8knRf.jpg #WomenInSTEM #science