Abstract
There are notably fewer women than men, worldwide, in the physical sciences and engineering. Numbers also decrease markedly with each step up the career ladder, in both the academic and research (industrial and government laboratories) environments. In this study, academic performance of secondary‐school and university females in the mathematical and physical sciences was analyzed. The choice of careers for a group of secondary‐school females was also studied. A positive correlation between the choice of career and academic performance among the secondary‐school females was observed. The correlation was, however, not obvious for the female university students. This study presents possible reasons for poor performance and lack of interest in physics, and suggests ways of attracting and keeping females in the field of physics and its related sciences.
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