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Re:Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect stude... by brabel on Sunday October 04, 2020 @11:35AM (#24679768)
Why do you find it disappointing that women choose certain careers while men choose others when they have fully free choice on the matter?

We know that by nature, men and women MUST have different interests on average, otherwise they wouldn't be interested in each other and our species would die :).

Can't we just accept that we make different choices sometimes and try as best as we can to make things progress to the best of our capabilities, regardless of how much each gender contributes to each human endeavour?

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Re:Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect stude... by caseysoftware on Sunday October 04, 2020 @04:17PM (#24681964)
Read my comment again.
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Re:Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect stude... by blocko on Monday October 05, 2020 @01:33PM (#24689932)
Why wouldn't men and women be interested in each other if they had similar interests? How do gay couples exist in this framework?
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Re:Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect stude... by apta on Sunday October 04, 2020 @05:21PM (#24682339)
I think he's agreeing with you.
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Re:Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect stude... by edmundsauto on Sunday October 04, 2020 @01:05PM (#24680506)
Except we use statistic about the gender makeup of a field to determine if there is sexism. Which is flawed, but often feels rational.
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Re:Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect stude... by flashyfaffe2 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @01:48PM (#24680826)
I can't find the article describing it but the gender bias tends to be disregarded when you add one additional parameter: place of birth.

In third world countries, women reprensent 50% of the students in engineering classes ( for reasons that are easily understandable).

Actually, the bias observed applyies in countries where freedom of choice is given to everyone.

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