When I was a kid-and I'm in my early 50s, girls had to take home economics and boys had to take shop. None of the girls that I knew went on to Sciences, I'm sure there were some, but none that I knew.  Now, it is much more commonplace-because things & policies changed.  My daughter will do well, but if I went to high school with her, I doubt she would be going to study Engineering at Queens.