Re:Struggling with the Gender Gap
by pyre on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @05:18AM
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I actually think that it would be much easier to recognize a 'female Einstein' just because her intelligence would be so exceptional. But it wouldn't be equality if only the brightest women were treated with respect, while the rest of the women were treated with less respect than males with an equivalent intelligence/skillset.
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> I actually think that it would be much easier to recognize a 'female Einstein' just because her intelligence would be so exceptional.
Sorry, I don't get it. What are you trying to say?
By the way, the most beautiful result in physics was discovered by a woman, Emmy Noether. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noethers_theorem)
The idea that we should focus on trying to get respect/acceptance for female super geniuses. My point is that getting respect for ultra smart women is less of an issue because it's easy to recognize that they are exceptional.