Sure, good idea. There are lots of ways people can fall through the cracks. In my youth I had a tendency to get into funks, where it was very hard to get anything done, so I'm sympathetic.
Few. But so what? What I'm trying to debunk is the assumption that in a healthy state the proportion would be 50%, because that isn't true. The idea that any deviation from statistical equivalence must *a priori* be due to hazing, sexual harrassment, belittling, etc. is just cracked.
Right, but those are the job requirements. How many not-smart, not-tough, not-motivated _men_ make good engineers? Not-many.
Sure, I wasn't trying to be superior or anything, just to make the point that it's the sort of job that women tend to like, and to be better at. Isn't that so?
Cheers
Phil Hobbs