Not enough women in science?

Are women underrepresented in science?  My philosophy professor was complaining that since half of all B.Sc. grads are females, it doesn't make any sense that there are so few female science professors.  Personally, I don't see what the problem is.  It's not like scientific progress is being impeded by gender inequality.

I'd have to agree with you, OP. There's no real "bias" at work here, anymore, I don't think. I would say it's just that women tend to flock to other positions. No big deal.

Equal rights doesn't mean we HAVE to maintain an even 50/50 distribution. That's just retarded. Sure, you can offer incentives to women for those positions if you like to try and keep a diverse environment, but I don't think we have to make a huge deal out of this stupid PC shit. If relatively few women (or men) want a position, who cares? So long as you aren't actually going out of your way to shut them out, I don't see the problem.

The same logic goes with race, creed, sexual orientation, etc, as well.

Anyway, I'm just an IT guy, where the female population actually IS pretty low, but I have relatives who are archaeologists and biologists. I've been to some dig sites and they're absolutely CRAWLING with women. Almost everyone from the manual labor to the highest levels of oversight was female. Same deal with most of the animal research types of places that I've seen: highly skewed to females.

I mean, I don't want it to seem like I'm an expert or that I have any sort of real experience -- far from it, just occasional visits -- but from what I've seen, there's a pretty healthy female population. Maybe the women who are into science tend to like the hands-on kind of environments or something. Then again, maybe what I saw was a statistical abnormality. I dunno.