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The grading system is fairly meritocratic - essays are graded off syllabi and fixed points are deducted for wrong math answers. The girls and boys in a school a

The grading system is fairly meritocratic - essays are graded off syllabi and fixed points are deducted for wrong math answers. The girls and boys in a school are coming from the same cross-sections of society, so if the girls get better grades maybe they are just winning at the meritocracy? I have a hard time believing there is an actual inequality of opportunities across genders past maybe a superficial level. I am skeptical interventions actually help - the students who do the right things in their own time will get better grades.

origin_path 4y ago
It's not really meritocratic. There was a clever study on this some time ago that proved female teachers systematically give higher grades to girls. There's a prevailing culture that women help women get ahead by fair means or foul, and that this is "moral". So it starts early and the result is a systematically sexist society Inc which women are constantly being given quiet or not so quiet benefits, usually by blocking out discriminating against men. It's definitely not that women benefit from meritocracy. Indeed what I've seen over my whole life is that many women are determined to eradicate meritocracy of any kind.
- bArray 4y ago
  I agree with most of this. > It's not really meritocratic. There was a clever study on this some time ago that proved female teachers systematically give higher grades to girls. To add anecdata, I did some marking of written and typed work, and I found I was extremely accurate in determining whether the writer was a male or female. > It's definitely not that women benefit from meritocracy. We really don't know yet. There was a time when females were kept out of education (and poor males too). The claim is made that "women bias to counter historic bias". Based on this, now that females now perform better than males in education, is this not now a completed task? > Indeed what I've seen over my whole life is that many women are determined to eradicate meritocracy of any kind. Equality was simply never the goal. We don't see surges of females becoming construction workers or hauling trash. We don't see males encouraged to enter into female dominated fields such as sociology or language studies. What we see almost exclusively is females encouraged into historically male dominated fields - that's all.

origin_path 4y ago

It's not really meritocratic. There was a clever study on this some time ago that proved female teachers systematically give higher grades to girls. There's a prevailing culture that women help women get ahead by fair means or foul, and that this is "moral". So it starts early and the result is a systematically sexist society Inc which women are constantly being given quiet or not so quiet benefits, usually by blocking out discriminating against men. It's definitely not that women benefit from meritocracy. Indeed what I've seen over my whole life is that many women are determined to eradicate meritocracy of any kind.

bArray 4y ago
I agree with most of this. > It's not really meritocratic. There was a clever study on this some time ago that proved female teachers systematically give higher grades to girls. To add anecdata, I did some marking of written and typed work, and I found I was extremely accurate in determining whether the writer was a male or female. > It's definitely not that women benefit from meritocracy. We really don't know yet. There was a time when females were kept out of education (and poor males too). The claim is made that "women bias to counter historic bias". Based on this, now that females now perform better than males in education, is this not now a completed task? > Indeed what I've seen over my whole life is that many women are determined to eradicate meritocracy of any kind. Equality was simply never the goal. We don't see surges of females becoming construction workers or hauling trash. We don't see males encouraged to enter into female dominated fields such as sociology or language studies. What we see almost exclusively is females encouraged into historically male dominated fields - that's all.