This just got sent out via university email to and, well I don't know:

"You Go Girl! (but not into Engineering or Physics)


With Andrew Robinson - Department of Physics
Friday March 28, 2008: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Physics 165

If we look at both National and University of Saskatchewan admissions, approximately 55% of all undergraduates are now female. However, there are two important subject areas which do not follow this general trend: Nursing, with a 90% female bias, and Physics and Engineering, with a 90% male bias. This means that in these two key professional areas, approximately half of the population is not represented and these professions are therefore losing half of their brightest and best students. Several studies of attitudes of high school students carried out in Europe show that there is a strong gender bias towards subject areas at age 14.

Obviously, a comprehensive remedy to the situation requires action at the high school level. What can we do at the University level to help make our courses more relevant to 50% of the population? In this workshop we would like to explore ways of structuring and devising first year programs in science and engineering, which will stimulate the interest of both male and female students. We need to examine our entry level offerings in these subjects, find subject material which both male and female students will be interested in, and adjust our teaching methods to make the classes more inclusive.

The ultimate aim is to double the enrollment in Physics and Engineering subjects by getting more women into these programs.

Please register for this workshop using your NSID at:

http://www.usask.ca/gmcte/drupal/?q=winter_workshops"



I don't see what schools have to do with getting females into physics or engineering, and I don't see why they care. It's not as if girl can't get in or have anymore trouble than boys.