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They don't. It's hard because men are both smarter and stupider than women. Our bell-curves have the same mean but men's variance has far more geniuses and far more dumbasses than women's.

It gets even more pronounced when you consider mathematically demanding disciplines, for some well understood reasons (the effect of testosterone in utero) and some reasons not so well.

For every Amy Noether, there are a hundred Bernhard Riemanns. That's just the way it is. Pretending otherwise is damaging to the discipline. I guarantee you that the Chinese are not doing this.

22 posted on 10/01/2018 1:09:59 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward 5th Avenue to be born?)

For every Amy Noether, there are a hundred Bernhard Riemanns.

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Her students often referred to her as Herr Noether.

32 posted on 10/01/2018 1:50:21 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)