If you look at www.unistats.com you can search for "Physics" at whatever university you want, and then it'll tell you the gender ratio. I think normally it's about 70:30 or 80:20 male-female. At all the Physics open days I've been to, there's been more than 1 female, so you probably just got unlucky.
naa i found that there were girls doing physics at alevels but they tend to go into medicine or physiotherapy but i dont know y it isnt popular for girls its wierd
I did an article on this at my school... my sister who's a physics teacher tells me girls may avoid physics because when they're surrounded by males -- who generally tend to be a lot more confident and upfront with their thoughts -- will feel reluctant to show interest; then there's also peer pressure etc... Whereas my physics teacher thinks it's pretty much because females just don't like physics in general
There's only been a couple of other girls on open days i've been to so far, but to be honest I quite like that. I guess it's just seen as such a dry, analytical subject, which would make it appeal more to boys, whereas girls would usually go for more creative subjects like english lit or art.
True - but i'll be jealous of them all because they'll be studying subjects i can't... however i was meaning more once people have graduated and are working - work places tending to make up more of a social life than uni courses (at least this is true with most people i know)
At all the open days I've been at there have been about 1/3 girls, or maybe 1/4. I know Bristol is proud that they have nearly a 50:50 ratio, or so they say.
apparently it's 23% female here at shef uni... that suprises me though, i thought it was less. i was at an all girls school where we were encouraged to become feminists and prove we could do anything we wanted better than boys could still... i ended up in a class of 4 doing A level physics (i think the other class was 6 or 8 people) and out of 120 in our year, only 2 of us went to do physics at uni. Telling people i do physics usually gets a 'why the hell would anyone do that, it's too hard' reaction, but i don't know if that's common to both sexes.
i just noticed that computer science at sheffield has a 94:6 male to female ratio... (my degree began as physics and computer science)
Telling people i do physics usually gets a 'why the hell would anyone do that, it's too hard' reaction, but i don't know if that's common to both sexes.