Related Links: UnLocking Your Brilliance and STEMspire website PK Electrical website Why is there such a gender imbalance when it comes to the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields? What characterizes a career in math or in science that keeps it male-dominated even today, when women—at least on paper—share the same freedoms as men? What is it about, say, physics that attracts men and repels women?Is testosterone a required variable for understanding inertia or balancing the Schrödinger equation? Why are there so few women?PurcellThere is no easy way to explain why more women are not encouraged to follow STEM