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Originally posted by Avatar:
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Highier exam results.. that's conclusive isn't it?
Then why is it that most important breakthroughs in Science are done by blokes?
If we compile the list, the girls have about 3 and the guys have about 40,000.
Is it because we peak later? Are we very sexiest? Are we sexy? sorry wrong question.
Are exams not reflecting true interlectual independent potential? Do they reflect more on memory, discipline and self-motivation?
What do you think?
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We were just talking about this at university (we were studying feminism). Some figures showed that women in the Political Science Department had on average higher grades then men, and there was about the same number of women as men. But then all of a sudden the number of women fell drastically (at the MA and Phd level). If you look at the age of these women, you will see that this is the age when women have children. The problem with today's academic world is that is it still man oriented. I don't really see many things being done to make returning to school after you have a child easier. And something should be done about it.
I don't think it has anything to do with memory or discipline or anything like that...
Now, I didn't read the whole thread, so sorry about that, but I don't know who said it, it might've been you, that women have been in high level academics for the past 10 years. But 10 years is nothing. Who is doing the big breakthroughs? Most of them are people over 40, or at least 30... which would mean ten years wouldn't be enough time. [img]tongue.gif[/img] And you also have to think about that some people still have the "woman should be at home taking care of the children, and man should provide" mentality, which doesn't really help. And not to mention that some people (I heard if from my teacher listening to other teachers talking about students) still see men with good grades as intelligent and women as hard-working... So I think it's a mix of all that...
Hmmm, my post seems really confusing right now... I've been working on an essay all day so I need some sleep.
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