[Blogger]

As a woman and an educator, I agree. Women are much better spellers and writers as whole, naturally. Men are better at math and science. There are always exceptions, of course.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Remember how Laurence Summers, president of Harvard, was lampooned about speculating about women in the sciences. Certain subjects are not to be discussed unless one can come to politically correct conclusions. If the conclusion or evidence is not politically correct, then it must be wrong somehow.

[abclily]

Your observations are correct.

Also, I found that boys understood the functions of the eight parts of speech better when they were allowed to diagram sentences.

[El Cid]

I agree. I've been around some brilliant women engineers, but they are the exception.
The 'wiring' is different between men's and women's brains.
Praise the Lord - that's the way it should be (the two make one unit - not two separate individuals: Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. ).

This is just an attempt to cram one's preconceived ideas of an outcome down society's throat - rather than accepting nature and appreciating the positive aspects of the differences.

[Neoliberalnot]

I too am in education. Higher education has become the seat and propagator of intolerance and deception. Sadly and shamefully, seeking the truth is no longer the goal of higher education.

[skeeter]

I once heard an academic lecture regarding a thesis they had developed - actually it was more of simple observation - which suggested that males tend to be scattered all along whatever particular continuum you can name - whether intellectual (math skills for example) or social (criminal behavior, etc)- from one extreme to the other, while women tend to be grouped in the center more or less.

This results in more inept & stupid men than women, but also more brilliant and gifted men than women. Something in the way the two sexes are hardwired.

Made sense to me, anyway.