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Math Scores Show No Gap for Girls, Study Finds
By TAMAR LEWIN
Published: July 25, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/education/25math.html?ref=us
Three years after the president of Harvard, Lawrence H. Summers, got into trouble for questioning women’s “intrinsic aptitude” for science and engineering - and 16 years after the talking Barbie doll proclaimed that “math class is tough” - a study paid for by the National Science Foundation has found that girls perform as well as boys on standardized math tests.
Although boys in high school performed better than girls in math 20 years ago, the researchers found, that is no longer the case. The reason, they said, is simple: Girls used to take fewer advanced math courses than boys, but now they are taking just as many.
“Now that enrollment in advanced math courses is equalized, we don’t see gender differences in test performance,” said Marcia C. Linn of the University of California, Berkeley, a co-author of the study. “But people are surprised by these findings, which suggests to me that the stereotypes are still there.”
Stereotypes are still there.
Yeah they are. (See previous post.)
The loudmouth has largely been shut up in the workplace, where one's job or assets are on the line as liabilities for spewing racist or sexist claptrap -- one's money literally where his mouth is.
(Perhaps more accurately, the employer's money, and, therefore, he is going to go on record as telling the bigot to shut up, so the next time the boss is on the stand, he'll exhibit the training manual, and the attendance sheet with your name on it.)
Does that actually mean there's been a change of heart in the boardroom?
("The problem around here," said one of my bosses, in the closed-door of the office, "is that there are too many Queen Bees..."
And those Queen Bees were excellent change-agents, motivators, leaders.)
I think the fact that bigotry has been forced "underground" gives rise to these on-air mouths that get fed so much cash for sophomorisms.
Who
the hell
is listening
and paying?
Is it you?
Haven't you worked with Mary Camezon, an excellent facilitator, i.e., leader?
Haven't you worked out with Manny Carillo, an Airman, FAC, and excellent wrestler?
I was conversing with a table students. I admitted, "I'm a radical: I think that if women represent half the population, then Congress should be fifty percent female. There should be four or five woman Justices, and it's high time women had a turn in the White House --"
And a student, an intelligent, witty, beautiful young woman, says, "No: women aren't strong enough."
I suppose if you're told to stop crying like a girl,
stop throwing like a girl,
etc. ...
By TAMAR LEWIN
Published: July 25, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/education/25math.html?ref=us
Three years after the president of Harvard, Lawrence H. Summers, got into trouble for questioning women’s “intrinsic aptitude” for science and engineering - and 16 years after the talking Barbie doll proclaimed that “math class is tough” - a study paid for by the National Science Foundation has found that girls perform as well as boys on standardized math tests.
Although boys in high school performed better than girls in math 20 years ago, the researchers found, that is no longer the case. The reason, they said, is simple: Girls used to take fewer advanced math courses than boys, but now they are taking just as many.
“Now that enrollment in advanced math courses is equalized, we don’t see gender differences in test performance,” said Marcia C. Linn of the University of California, Berkeley, a co-author of the study. “But people are surprised by these findings, which suggests to me that the stereotypes are still there.”
Stereotypes are still there.
Yeah they are. (See previous post.)
The loudmouth has largely been shut up in the workplace, where one's job or assets are on the line as liabilities for spewing racist or sexist claptrap -- one's money literally where his mouth is.
(Perhaps more accurately, the employer's money, and, therefore, he is going to go on record as telling the bigot to shut up, so the next time the boss is on the stand, he'll exhibit the training manual, and the attendance sheet with your name on it.)
Does that actually mean there's been a change of heart in the boardroom?
("The problem around here," said one of my bosses, in the closed-door of the office, "is that there are too many Queen Bees..."
And those Queen Bees were excellent change-agents, motivators, leaders.)
I think the fact that bigotry has been forced "underground" gives rise to these on-air mouths that get fed so much cash for sophomorisms.
Who
the hell
is listening
and paying?
Is it you?
Haven't you worked with Mary Camezon, an excellent facilitator, i.e., leader?
Haven't you worked out with Manny Carillo, an Airman, FAC, and excellent wrestler?
I was conversing with a table students. I admitted, "I'm a radical: I think that if women represent half the population, then Congress should be fifty percent female. There should be four or five woman Justices, and it's high time women had a turn in the White House --"
And a student, an intelligent, witty, beautiful young woman, says, "No: women aren't strong enough."
I suppose if you're told to stop crying like a girl,
stop throwing like a girl,
etc. ...