I am not much of a scientist, either, haha. I fangirl science from a distance, but every time someone suggests I actually take a science class, I kind of go, "What, and do a lab EVERY WEEK?"

That's interesting--I don't know very much about the history of stats, but yeah, math has kind of been a hardcore boy's club, people like Emmy Noether and Sophie Germain notwithstanding. I think what the research says now is that among undergrads the gender balance is starting to even out, and I think I saw a figure that women are now 30% of grad students in math? But yeah, tenure takes a long time to show changes.