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https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672 https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672 > But it also reveals that teachers can be biased towards giving girls
by wisty 7y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672 https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672
> But it also reveals that teachers can be biased towards giving girls higher results than boys, even when they have produced the same quality of work.
It would be ironic if bias against boys (likely more egregious in more subjectively marked areas like the humanities) drives them to the more lucrative STEM fields.
- FakeComments 7y agoMost of education is built around misandry. It’s a female dominated profession where women have been succeeding at rates higher than men for a generation, yet all the funding and attention is directed towards helping women further that advantage — by those same women in the profession, who frequently tell denigrating or emotionally manipulative lies about men. If you want to know what actual institutional sexism looks like in the West, it’s the misandry in education.