Re:Girls sweep at Google Science Fair
by bzbarsky on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @12:39PM
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> but I haven't seen any evidence that it's the result of
> endemic, institutional sexism
You don't consider girls being encouraged to succeed by their teachers and society at large while boys are not (a common situation in schools today, and a stark contrast to as recently as 10-15 years ago) as "endemic, institutional sexism"?
Or you haven't seen any evidence that this difference in societal attitudes is causative in better female school performance?
I can accept the latter, though there is in fact experimental data that suggests that boys do better with more encouragement...
You don't consider girls being encouraged to succeed by their teachers and society at large while boys are not (a common situation in schools today, and a stark contrast to as recently as 10-15 years ago) as "endemic, institutional sexism"?
Or you haven't seen any evidence that this difference in societal attitudes is causative in better female school performance?
I can accept the latter, though there is in fact experimental data that suggests that boys do better with more encouragement...