<p>Everyone says that they look for women in the "hard" sciences?
is chemistry considered "hard"?</p>
<p>also, do they look for women in math as well?</p>
<p>probably, considering that women just short of absent in math. The US IMO team is typically all male.</p>
<p>When someone says they are looking for women in the “hard” sciences they are usually not referring to difficulty (although the sciences are) but instead to natural and physical sciences such as physics, chemistry and biology as opposed to “soft” sciences such as social sciences. In biology, women are or come close to the majority, in chemistry they are a significant minority, in math they are a minority, likewise for physics and engineering. Engineering probably provides, of the group, the best opportunity for women to find employment coming out of college. Math maybe but you face more difficulty finding employment regardless of whether you are male or female than you would face if you majored in engineering or even physics or chemistry simply because there is higher demand to employ engineers or physics or chemistry majors than there is for math majors.</p>
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<p>I have no idea where you’re getting this information from, but I consider it false. Physics and chemistry are both very specific sciences, whereas math is more broad and provides many more opportunities for various types of work.</p>