The article itself shows that lectures do not favor white males. Several quotes from the article completely explain what is going on here.
“...we learn new material by anchoring it to knowledge we already possess. The same lecture, given by the same professor in the same lecture hall, is actually not the same for each student listening; students with more background knowledge will be better able to absorb and retain what they hear.”
So students who are prepared for college can learn new stuff easier.
“In the structured course, all demographic groups reported completing the readings more frequently and spending more time studying; all groups also achieved higher final grades than did students in the lecture course.”
So if you do all the work you are supposed to do, you get better grades.
What the author doesn’t realize is that she is saying that minorities and women are less prepared for college and have poor study skills. She tries to pin their problems on outside factors, when in fact she is showing the problems are with the students and not the teaching format.
many women memorize rather than learn
memorizing a lecture is more difficult than from print