There has always been a predominate amount of males in the business field, ranging from economics to science to mechanics. Lately, there has been a spike in numbers for women who have won Nobel prizes and achieved academic awards in scientific programs. Yet these numbers don't detract from how jobs are still not equally paid. It is a common fact that in the recent past for a every dollar a man made, a woman only made 70 cents. Not much has changed. It does not detract from how many female educators in these fields hold jobs. It does not detract from the dichotomy of what a woman is supposed to be: educated, successful and a family-oriented individual.
With all of the advancements, with all the drive, why haven't things changed? There is the aspect that women need to balance and maintain a family life with their career, which can put a stop to something as time consuming as the sciences. In 2001, the Harvard president at the time, Summers, stated that “there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude" regarding that at the time of his presidency not a single female professor received a tenured position that year.
Here are numbers, brought to you by the NY Times: 16 out of 540 Nobel prizes in science are awarded to women; female science professors at the US's elite schools: 10%, and has been for 50 years; 18% of tenured professors in 27 nations are women.
If even Barbie is making educational advances, what's to stop women from achieving? After all, if Barbie can get a degree even though "math is hard," what is preventing women from completely shattering the glass ceiling? The TI-83+ can calculate a graph as to when that ceiling will be shattered completely, statistically speaking, of course.
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