# Girls != Math | Girls == Frence

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/girls-math-girls-frence/65437>\
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**Created:** [September 26, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/girls-math-girls-frence/65437 "2004-09-26T12:01:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/girls-math-girls-frence/65437/21 "2004-09-27T01:18:43Z")

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> [@teet](#):
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> I have to agree with T-O to some extent on the math part…
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> I’m a math major, and most of my upper level math classes (not calc I, II, or III where you have quite a few non-math majors) are a sausage fest. I would say for every 2 or 3 guys there is 1 girl. Overall, my school is 61% female to 39% male.
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> I don’t have the statistics off hand, but there is an engineering school nearby that is supposedly 80-90% male.
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> [edit]I looked it up. University of Missouri, Rolla. “Women represent 21% of the undergraduate students pursuing math, engineering, and the ‘hard’ sciences”[/edit]
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> -teet

sausage fest. 😃

Learn something cool each day.

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**Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/girls-math-girls-frence/65437/22 "2004-09-27T17:14:03Z")

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I am pretty sure that the stereotype is not true all the time but I can say that I am horrible in math…pathetic even and I dread every second of it that I ever had to take from grammer school all the way through college… I usually passed but the few C’s I ever got in school were always Math—Give me english, give me a language anything like that and I will learn it in and out but not Math…

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**Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/girls-math-girls-frence/65437/23 "2004-09-27T17:23:15Z")

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There are just as many girls who like Math as guys who like Math, and girls who hate Math as guys who hate Math. 😜

e.g. I am a Math/CS major, hoping for a PhD in AI. I get high 90s in anything Math related, and low 70s in anything English related. I usually don’t try when it comes to Math, although I occasionally spend my spare time reading about Math. I have once failed in an English class even after trying my absolute hardest. (I do like reading though.)  
However, my boyfriend is an English Lit. major, hoping for a PhD in whatever he can get. He gets high 90s in anything English/Philosophy related, and is afraid of numbers. He doesn’t try in school, and spends his spare time reading and writing and not doing arithmetic, and he hated high school because of Math classes in which he studied 24/7 and still ended up with a 49% (one less than a pass).

Most of my high school was actually like that- the girls excelled in mathematical subjects, while the guys were generally better at history/english. Guys also seemed more interested in hardware and mechanics, although there were quite a few girls who broke that mold as well.

Anyway, my point was: 😜

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