<p>a lot of it is time delay too. women outnumber men in math degrees awarded per year across the country if i recall correctly. yet because that is a relatively recent trend, there is lag in the top PhD programs, and then you figure a decade or so to build the sort of career that leads you to be a professor at a place like MIT. </p>
<p>point is there are a huge number of factors and it’s all incredibly complex and it boils down to: we have really smart girls who apply to MIT and we admit a lot of them because they are awesome.</p>