Getting more girls to study math, tech / Panel planning to discuss old issue of disparity with boys: "For all the attention focused in recent years on the problems of getting more girls and women interested in science, math and technology, advocates say there is still a long way to go.
A 2002 study from the Department of Labor's women's bureau found that only 10 percent of engineers across the country are women, according to Donna Milgram, executive director of the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology, and Science, a group based in Alameda.
Milgram will participate in a panel discussion in Alameda Tuesday night on the subject of 'Women and Girls in Science, Math and Technology.'
'There's still a big disparity between the percentage of women in science, engineering and technology versus the percentage of men,' Milgram said. 'I think there has been a tendency to define certain things as masculine and feminine. Science and technology are defined as masculine.'"
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