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lumberjack_jeff

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3. I think it's more basic

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 04:09 PM

Apr 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/sep/01/girls-boys-schools-gender-gap

Girls think they are cleverer, more successful and harder working than boys from as young as four, a study has found.

Boys come round to this view by the age of seven or eight and assume that girls will outperform them at school and behave better in lessons, research from the University of Kent shows.

The study – Gender Expectations and Stereotype Threat – will be presented to the British Educational Research Association's conference tomorrow.

The paper argues that teachers have lower expectations of boys than of girls and this belief fulfils itself throughout primary and secondary school.

Why should that bias stop once people enter college?

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Study finds hiring discrimination in STEM academia [View all] Major Nikon Apr 2015 OP

but how can that be with the war on women raging Romeo.lima333 Apr 2015 #1

The OP seems to indicate it's a form of social justice Major Nikon Apr 2015 #2

I think it's more basic lumberjack_jeff Apr 2015 #3

This doesn't superise me at all Sen. Walter Sobchak Apr 2015 #4