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Women do better in all schooling. This is mainly because in the 70s all the curriculums and teaching strategies were rewritten to emphasize feminine learning s
by forensic 16y ago
Women do better in all schooling.
This is mainly because in the 70s all the curriculums and teaching strategies were rewritten to emphasize feminine learning styles.
When was the last time you saw a teacher in a classroom use the socratic method? That's a male learning strategy that is no longer used because women find it confrontational and competitive.
Male learning styles tend to emphasize contest, competition, oppositional debate, and criticism while female styles emphasize co-operation, discussion without criticism, observational learning, and role modeling.
The schools from kindergarten up have shifted almost completely to female learning styles.
Is it surprising that women make up 60%+ of university students and almost always have higher marks?
The special clubs and programs and self-esteem boosting women get from the media and so on helps too I'm sure. When was the last time a Dove commercial told some nerdy guy that he is beautiful the way he is? :p
- btilly 16y agoThat's a lot more big generalizations. Citations would be nice. And it is getting away from the main point. Which is the claim that women are bad at abstraction, versus my concrete evidence that they are capable of it. If you need another data point, back when I was in grad school something like 40% of graduate students in math were women. From my experience, they weren't the bottom 40%. And were quite capable at abstraction. I truly don't believe that women aren't in CS because it is too hard for their pretty little heads. OK, sure, most women wouldn't succeed in CS for that reason. But the same is true of most men.
- dennisgorelik 16y ago1) Would our own experience in school serve as a good confirmation that discussions and competitiveness are not really promoted in schools? 2) Women are not bad at abstractions. They are just not interested in dealing with abstractions as much as men do. That explains why there are so few women in software development.
- btilly 16y agoMy personal experience is not consistent with #1. My personal experience of women who choose to go on in advanced mathematics (of which there are almost as many as there are men) is strongly at odds with your claim #2.
- forensic 16y agoWhy are you replying to things I didn't say? I never mentioned abstractions because I think that is irrelevant. You literally clicked "reply" to me and then did not respond to a single point I made.