gthrowaway

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by gthrowaway 13y ago
I do not understand how this achievement gap, as you call it, actually matters or is holding men back when men hold most of the advanced degrees, and wealth in this society. Well, at the moment women are earning more bachelor's degre
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by gthrowaway 13y ago
Because alleged "awareness campaigns" which focus on the least common risk factors (and there are many such campaigns) are a major annoyance to me: it's well worth reviewing the other study linked here: https://new
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by gthrowaway 13y ago
Well. Firstly, the fact that you continue to use and insist on an overladen (with decades' worth of baggage) term that obscures what you're talking about, rather than just say what you claim to mean, is not an encouraging sign to
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by gthrowaway 13y ago
About the best way I can put this is via analogy. Imagine a patient with appendicitis who goes to a doctor, and the doctor just hands over a prescription for pain medication and says "no worries, this will make you feel better right aw
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by gthrowaway 13y ago
Read the comment again. Gender roles are pervasive, but are more obvious for women, who tend to get defined in terms of their wombs rather than any individual characteristics. Essentialists who hold traditional/conservative views don&#
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by gthrowaway 13y ago
I'm confused by what seems to be a non-sequitur. I'm talking about educational achievement, and there is an absolute, well-documented and undeniable gap there. While it's true that within the highest ranks of Western society,
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by gthrowaway 13y ago
Of course "feminism" isn't a unified lockstep movement. But is there a thing, let's call it "pop feminism", which is widespread enough and whose adherents share enough basic ideas and positions, that we can use
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by gthrowaway 13y ago
Books are tricky since the required funding/publicity tends to mean that only people with reactionary/highly-conservative viewpoints can break into that, and come with their own views on why we have this gap and how to address it.
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by gthrowaway 13y ago
Sad that I need a throwaway account to talk about this, but such is life. Spend some time doing searches on terms like "gender grading gap" and reading the recent research. What you find may surprise you, is consistent across mult