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Girls’ math skills now equal boys’ – Education- msnbc.com: “Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, ‘Math class is tough!’ girls are proving that when it comes to math they are just as tough as boys.”

(Via Scott-386550 @ Newsvine.)

I know when I was recently in school for my mathematics degree, the number of women in my classes were significantly higher than when I first went to school some number of years ago. Even if they were there for other degrees, it was nice to see so many taking on the challenge of the natural sciences and mathematics. The one area where women in mathematics seemed to have fewer women was in my pure mathematics classes, but I never had a class that was all men.