The Two Body Problems and its Ramifications

This is a very interesting article in Nature, about the problems scientist couples face, including the infamous two body problem. There are a lot of interesting ideas in the article, including the question of the two body problem on females versus males.

One question the team hopes to answer is are such marriages tougher for female scientists? Besides being a minority in their field, female physicists struggle with the two-body problem more often than their male counterparts. A 1998 survey by the American Physical Society found that although only about 6% of its members are women, 43% of these are married to other physicists. In contrast, only 6% of married male physicists have a physicist spouse. Other studies have found that almost twice as many women chemists are married to or partnered with another chemist as compared to their male colleagues, and 80% of women mathematicians are married to other scientists.

I really recommend everyone to read the above article.

Now for some fun, read the following article about why smart girls date in parallel and not serial! :-P That is, dating explained by circuit theory!

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