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Experiment documents women's physical reaction to being outnumbered in math, science.(NEWSWATCH)
Even successful female scientists and mathematicians can feel uncomfortable when outnumbered by males, according to a recent study at Stanford University CA.
Dr. Mary Murphy, a National Science Foundation post-doc at Northwestern University IL and Stanford alumna, showed videos of a fake conference to 47 Stanford under-grads, half women and half men. Half of each group saw scenes with an equal number of each sex, and half saw one with women outnumbered 3:1.
She attached electrodes to the students' fingers and chests to monitor their physical response to the videos. Women and men who saw equal numbers of each sex responded to it alike, as did men who saw the version where men outnumbered women.
But the women ...
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