The Truth about Gender Preferences Hiding in Plain Sight

MJ Perry at Carpe Diem blog looks at College Board Advanced Placement exams by gender, in search of what he could learn about possible career choice interests by high school aged girls and boys. What he found is quite revealing -- and quite unlikely to ever be revealed in the mainstream press, for fear of repercussions from powerful feminist interests.

Take a look, and see what you think:

AP Subject Exam, 2011	%Female	%Male
Studio Art: Drawing	74	26
Studio Art: Design	72	28
French Language	69	31
Art History	66	34
English Literature	63	37
Psychology	63	37
Spanish Language	63	37
Spanish Literature	63	37
English Language	62	38
Biology	59	41
Chinese Language	58	42
French Literature	58	42
Environmental Science	56	44
Japanese	56	44
World History	55	45
Human Geography	54	46
U.S. History	54	46
European History	53	47
U.S. Government	53	47
Statistics	52	48
Latin	50	50
Calculus AB	49	51
Italian	49	51
Comparative Government	48	52
Chemistry	47	53
German	47	53
Macroeconomics	46	54
Microeconomics	44	56
Music Theory	42	58
Calculus BC	41	59
Physics B	35	65
Physics C2	26	74
Physics C1	23	77
Computer Science A	20	80
Computer Science AB	14	86

1. Of the 35 AP subjects, female high students were over-represented in 20 subjects, male students were over-represented in 14 subjects and one subject (Latin) was perfectly balanced by gender.

2. In the science area, female students showed a greater interest in biology (59%) and environmental science (56%) than males, and males showed a greater interest in chemistry (47%) and physics (65%).

3. For mathematics subjects, female high school students were slightly over-represented in statistics (52%) and males were slightly over-represented in calculus (51%). For advanced calculus, male students were over-represented at 59%.

4. For all languages except German, more female students took language AP exams than males, and for French, female students outnumbered male students by more than 2-to-1.

5. Male high school students were significantly over-represented in all three physics exams, and both computer science exams.

Bottom Line: Assuming that high school students take AP classes and exams based on their interests and aptitudes in certain subjects, there do appear to be many gender-based differences in academic interests. Even within STEM fields there appear to be gender differences, with female high school students showing a greater interest than males in biology and environmental science and males showing a greater interest in chemistry and physics. Female students show an interest in statistics and calculus, but less of an interest in advanced math (calculus) and very little interest in computer science compared to their male classmates. _MJPerry

Girls appear to display some strong career preferences at this stage. And judging by these preferences, it is unlikely that half of all professors in science / math, and engineering / computer science, will ever be female -- unless some form of strong coercion combined with a counter-productive "dumbing down" are instituted politically.

As Mark points out in his blog post, dominant feminist interests in academia, politics, and journalism do not care about anything except what can be used to increase the political power of their affiliates. Outside of such interests, there is no significant reality, for them.

For the rest of us, we merely need to try to limit how badly we are mugged by the politically connected special interests who have hijacked what was once a representative democracy/ constitutional republic.