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This makes me a bit cynical. Are we to believe women are too delicate to receive a 85% or less? I can't seem to read the paper, so I don't know. I find the ge
by Gunax 7y ago
This makes me a bit cynical. Are we to believe women are too delicate to receive a 85% or less?
I can't seem to read the paper, so I don't know.
I find the gender debates on HN mostly pointless... so trying to avoid that here.
- Bostonian 7y agoThe paper is at https://economics.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj9386/f/aahtmasterdoc042718a.pdf https://economics.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj9386/f/aa... . The paper "Choice of Majors: Are Women Really Different from Men?" did find that "Women are, however, more likely to switch out of male-dominated STEM majors in response to poor performance compared to men." The paper is at http://ftp.iza.org/dp10947.pdf http://ftp.iza.org/dp10947.pdf .