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    Are We Being Too Superficial About the Gender Problem in Science?

    by Jordana Cepelewicz Mar 22, 2017 2 minutes

    Hope Jahren, a geobiologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, is “very cynical about efforts to get girls into science.”Photograph by GSK / Flickr

    hy should the share of women in a given occupation affect its average pay? It’s a curious inverse relationship. Census data that when the former increases, the latter decreases—when certain occupations see large influxes of female labor,

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