The dispoportionate dropout rate of female college students from math, science, and engineering (MSE) fields has recently received much attention (Brainard, Laurich-McIntyre, 6' Moblqr, 1995; Carlin, 1997). The reasons far women 's higher attrition rate from MSE fields remain unclear. Eighty lstyear university students with apeexisting interest in MSE complehd a computer task-the Implicit Assoc...