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rmyl

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Which, in your opinion, is the most male dominated subject at uni?

Reply 1

Jump

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razormylight

Which, in your opinion, is the most male dominated subject at uni?

At a guess Physics or Engineering.

Reply 2

TheWolf

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razormylight

Which, in your opinion, is the most male dominated subject at uni?

I would think that computing/computer science is quite male dominant.

Reply 3

Jump

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TheWolf

I would think that computing/computer science is quite male dominant.

Good point.

Reply 4

rmyl

OP

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TheWolf

I would think that computing/computer science is quite male dominant.

yah thats true. doh, knew i'd miss one important one out :tongue:

Reply 5

hihihihi

yeah anything with lots of maths.

Reply 6

john williams

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Maybe Economics, cos when i went to a few open days, there didnt seen to be many girls in the Economics talks.

Reply 7

jpowell

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There are about 40-45% girls on my maths course, and I would think about 30-40% girls in my physics course.

Engineering has less than 10% girls in my year.

Reply 8

rmyl

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AntiMagicMan

There are about 40-45% girls on my maths course, and I would think about 30-40% girls in my physics course.

Engineering has less than 10% girls in my year.

i would've thought engineering would be higher, and physics lower. at the moment (A level) there's about 3 girls in a class of 20 in my physics class.

Reply 9

EPD

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At Bristol, I've met quite a few female physicists, yet on my course - Civil Engineering - there are 6 girls out of around 60-70. It was a similar story at open days. So I'd say Engineering and I imagine Computer Science too.

Reply 10

WhatFreshHell?

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Ha ha!

It's definitely not Modern Languages - it's like 60:40 men to women - and the odds are 20% of them will be hot, 20% of them will be funny, 20% will be interesting, and therefore 0.8% will be all 3!!! The odds are in my favour!

(Please, no one ruin it for me by correcting (a) the maths or (b) the logic)

Reply 11

Drogue

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Engineering has something silly like a 10:1 ratio of men to women, though that's changing. E&M at Oxford is 21 girls and 68 blokes so that's quite male dominated, though not as bad as Engineering.

Reply 12

EPD

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WhatFreshHell?

Ha ha!

It's definitely not Modern Languages - it's like 60:40 men to women - and the odds are 20% of them will be hot, 20% of them will be funny, 20% will be interesting, and therefore 0.8% will be all 3!!! The odds are in my favour!

(Please, no one ruin it for me by correcting (a) the maths or (b) the logic)

Really, I thought girls were in quite a majority in languages?

Reply 13

EPD

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Drogue

Engineering has something silly like a 10:1 ratio of men to women, though that's changing. E&M at Oxford is 21 girls and 68 blokes so that's quite male dominated, though not as bad as Engineering.

It's not normally that bad - my tutor was saying they normally have about 25:75% female:male on the course, but for some reason it didn't work out this year.

Reply 14

Col-C

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Electronic Engineering (Newcastle) - 3 girls, 48 boys. Of the three girls, only one is vaguely attractive. I chose a stupid degree!

Reply 15

lotus_lee

In my Computer Science degree at KCL, it's about 65% males and 35% females. Dunno why it's that high. I guess it's because it was available at Clearing this year and it seems a lot of people were originally rejected for Physics, Maths or something similar and offered a place for Computer Science instead (like me!).

Everything single time me and my mate go to one of our lectures, there's always a law class in there beforehand and god, there are so many attractive girls in there. *cough* wrong degree! *cough*

Reply 16

Create

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Think I'd tend to agree and say that Engineering is the most male-dominated. Straight sciences at my Uni do seem to have a higher proportion of females than engineering does. In the disciplines of engineering, I was quite surprised. I expected MechEng to have the lowest proportion of female, but it's actually a close call between electrical and chemical. Think just in general, engineering is the most male-dominated.

Personally, I'm fine with this, and it doesn't bother me. What does bother me is when some Universities and some employers 'favour' women merely to fill a certain quota of females, presumeably to show that they're not being discriminative. The best person for the job/uni place should get it, regardless of gender. It's harsh on men because sometimes they don't get the job/place they rightly deserve, and it's harsh on women because it's patronising and gives them a false sense of capability.

Sorry if that sounds quite rambling! Has anyone else experienced anything like this/got any views on this?

Reply 17

Atonement

What are the ratios for Law?

Reply 18

Flicker

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razormylight

Which, in your opinion, is the most male dominated subject at uni?

my boyfriend's doing music tech. in each of the 3 years there there is a BSc and a BA. i think there's about 30 on the BSc and 60 on the BA. altogether that's 270 people...

and not one girl. :rolleyes:

Reply 19

Cirsium

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I'd say probs physics or engineering... which in many ways is applied physics!! :tongue:

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