At physics-engineering we had 80 men to 6 women. And that was not even the worst ratio, electro had some years with only 1 or 2 women on 60-70 students.
I'm actually going to generalize that a bit - most people are suspectible to pretty names instead of taking things at their value to some degree. Whether this varies by gender, I don't know - and if it does, I also have no idea whether the variation is caused by biology or culture.
True, dat
I claimed that there is a certain type of person that is archetypical male that is less impressed by names or context. For instance, I dare to claim that the phrase "Doesn't matter how you call it, it still smells like shit" is more associated with a male speaker than a female speaker (try to envision both).
Which, skipping a few steps, brings us to bases of prejudices: Some prejudices are clearly based on nothing but superstition, rumour and falsehood, but there's others that have their bases in actual differences. Ascribing those differences to cultural reasons, as Virex wants to do, is false and harmful to the good cause. Women just don't like engineering as much as men do,
on average. Regardless of upbringing or culture. They're just less object-oriented, and more people oriented (
on average). This doesn't mean anything, except that you shouldn't be surprised that less of them express an interest in those topics.
And there's more stuff but Reelyanoob already covered most of that. The following comic is not just about looks, it goes for intellectual prowess as well. Men are just more likely to overestimate themselves, and women to underestimate themselves (on average).