The tone of that article about women in the sciences was interesting to contrast to other articles talking about how girls are outpacing boys in certain aspects of academia. While the tone of this article seemed to be, "well, maybe we should just accept it, it's biology, it's hard-wired", the ones about girls doing better than boys always seem so worried.
Reminds me of how when the original IQ test was developed, girls initially did better than boys and the test was adjusted so that that boys scored equally as a result. When boys aren't doing good enough, it seems like we change the rules, and when girls aren't good enough, society seems to want us to accept it as our destiny.
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Date: 2010-06-10 12:20 am (UTC)Reminds me of how when the original IQ test was developed, girls initially did better than boys and the test was adjusted so that that boys scored equally as a result. When boys aren't doing good enough, it seems like we change the rules, and when girls aren't good enough, society seems to want us to accept it as our destiny.