More than half of all college students in the United States, about 57% are female.

As of January, women are no longer barred from combat positions in the United States

military.

The male female income gap is tightening.

Women hold about 20% of the seats in both the U.S. and the House of Representatives the

highest proportion ever.

Three of the last five secretaries of state were women, and one of them, Condoleezza Rice,

just became one of the first female members of Augusta National Golf Club, one of the

oldest and goodest good ol' boy clubs in America.

Equality of the sexes has long been a goal, and in many ways that goal is being met.

But as you'll hear on this program, the variance between men and women on some dimensions

is still large.

In other words, women are not men.

In some ways, obvious, and in other ways, less so, patents, for instance, women file only

about 7.5% of all patents.

Well I was amazed because in many other areas, women are really closing in on men, and this

gap is just so enormous.

That's Jennifer Hunt, she's an economist at Rutgers.

She argues that if more women were to patent, it would add nearly 3% to our per capita GDP.

And why we asked her do so few women patent?

Men are more likely to be in jobs involving design work or development work, so the D in

the R&D.

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