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More women than men attend college as well. Women are not however overrepresented in the top 10 most dangerous jobs or the military or the homeless population.
by nerdchum 3y ago
More women than men attend college as well.
Women are not however overrepresented in the top 10 most dangerous jobs or the military or the homeless population.
A lot of talk about the glass ceiling but none about the glass floor.
- Daub 3y agoNot only that, but poorly performing students are more likely to be male, whilst excellent students are more likely to be female. This is true across almsot all disaplines.
- emsy 3y agoIn general, men are over represented at the extreme ends of performance, good and bad. If women excel in school that is an indicator of a bias against men.
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoOne of the best suggestions on dealing with this academic discrepancy is having boys take one more year in kindergarten, so that they are one year older than the girls in their grade / year. I'd take this one step further, and claim - from anecdata - that kids should be in quarters, and defer middle school until 6*4 or 7*4 quarters have been reached for girls and boys respectively. My class in highschool, mostly people who ended up mathematicians, doctors, etc, most of us were born in the first quarter of the year. Do take with a large grain of salt as a) it's been 10 years, and b) this is likely biased bc of the book "outliers".
- w0m 3y ago> having boys take one more year in kindergarten Functionally doing this with both of my children (though not repeating curriculum) after lots of debating and stress. Adding the expectation into the child's head of being "One of the Smart Ones" seems incredibly powerful moving forward.
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoI know that this is unsolicited advice, but be careful when putting such expectations to children. I know that it has caused me a lot of trouble and many regrets, mostly those of inadequacy even though in retrospect, my environment didn't enable me to flourish.
- w0m 3y agore: unsolicited advice - PLEASE man parenting No manual entry for parenting We've read a number of books; but our plan has pretty much broken down to * try and not do what our parents did to annoy us as children * give them every support and opportunity we can * Don't let them be assholes
- FredPret 3y agoThe range of attributes and outcomes are more varied for men. Highest IQ in the world - probably a man. Lowest - probably also a man. Boardrooms - full of men. Prisons - full of men.
- ChuckNorris89 3y agoMost suicides are also men and yet no extra benefits to mental healthcare are provided. On the contrary. Men have always been a disposable commodity. Useful for labor, paying taxes and dying in wars.
- strikelaserclaw 3y agoMost talk about women and gender equality is region/culture specific. In most of the world, women have a long way to go to achieve equality but in some highly developed countries, i'd say they have it a little bit better overall than men. The problem is men are always judged by what the minority of men do / have, most of the top ten richest people on earth are men? Well lets not forget that most likely the top ten percent of the poorest people are also probably also men, men have higher rates of suicide completion, lower rates of college completion, higher pressure to be a provider, less social support etc... It is great to be a man, provided you are born with high degree of "ability", otherwise you are just one of the "dregs of society".