Posted on 02/20/2005 3:32:14 PM PST by neverdem
GENDER STUDIES
In Victorian times, scientists argued that women's brains were too small to be fully human. On the intelligence scale, researchers recommended classifying human females with gorillas.
The great 19th century neuroanatomist Paul Broca didn't see the situation as quite so dire, but he warned his colleagues that women were not capable of being as smart as men, "a difference that we should not exaggerate, but which is nonetheless real."
The president of Harvard University suggested that a lack of "innate ability" might help explain why women couldn't keep up with men in fields like math and science … oh, wait, that one happened just last month.
Hold for a minute — OK — while I dig out my corset and bustle.
If that sounds snotty, I mean it to be.
I, for one, am ready to leave the 19th century behind. Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers can apologize all he wants, but the fact is that — from a position of power — he felt comfortable speculating about women's inadequate intelligence and ignoring years worth of science that proved him wrong.
I don't find that excusable. Period.
And I wonder why we women are so willing to tolerate this kind of behavior.
Summers raised the issue of women's lesser capabilities in an economic conference in Cambridge, Mass., in mid-January. And the most consistent response from women — the one still resonating across the country — is defensiveness.
A litany of female scholars quote studies proving that, yes, we girls can do long division, actually understand a chemical formula, comprehend a physical law or two and not only become professional scientists but do good work.
In fact, when allowed, women have done excellent science for decades, even since the corset-and-bustle days. The physicist Marie Curie won....
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"No kidding?" asks the ed major. Most children don't go to school full time until they are about 6 years old. Teachers work at least 180 days of each of those years AND many places (if not most) require a Masters degree within 10 years of hire. That does not equate to being home.
Day care is not the worst thing we can do to our children. However, I wouldn't deliberately structure my life so that my babies had to be in day care. I would advise any daughters of mine to think VERY carefully of what kind of life they want to have. If they want children and a home life, going to med school would be counterproductive.
At the same time,most men didn't finish high school.
It really wasn't until the 1960s,in American,that people began to go to college in great numbers;even including the vets from WW II,who went to college in far greater numbers than ever before seen.
Glaubst Du Das denn da immer noch? Wirchlich? Tja.
Same reason I went, you know. And I wanted to find a wife.
Seems to coincide with the downfall of American culture, doesn't it?
Right here on FR,with men making stupid remarks,such as the one you just made. ;^)
I think my grandma didn't make it far out of 4th or 5th grade. My mom got a degree in home ec, which even at that time was rather "abnormal" for a woman her age.
As I recall, women make up the majority of teachers by far); therefore, men are being taught primarily by women (don't forget Mothers are teachers, too). So, men should applaud and praise women because they're getting their smarts from them (stepping into my flame resistant Wonder Woman suit now ;-)
But more and more business began to require a college degree for jobs that it's ridiculous to require one for;hence today,most people think that they have to have a college degree.And graduate degrees are now so common that they've had to develop some weird thing called a post graduate degree now,for people to go beyond having a PHD!
In the mid/late '60s/early '70s many anti-war/lefties went onto teaching to escape the draft and wound up teaching their form of garbage,instead of REAL class work.
Depending upon how old your grandmother is (was?),your mother's age,and yours,that is either somewhat normal,or not. :-)
Fair enough, but did God invent alimony? I'm pretty sure, subject to check, that it had to be a women.
"Who's Ms Summers? Do you mean Ms Blum?"
YES :(
Thanks!
What is the source of this SAT chart - it is extremely telling.
I've never seen that data before -
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My husband is on the lowest part of this scale and I say humbly I am on the highest part.
Always ready to "shame" someone, aren't you?
There is no question that neither sex is naturally more inteligent than the other.
That being said, no woman ever pinned Andy Kaufman's shoulders to the mat for the 1-2-3. So at least in inter-gender wrestling, most of the evidence supports, at the very least, Andy Kaufman's superiority over the female sex when it came to wrestling.
(I sure miss Andy). ;-)
The man-woman comparison as regards the intellect should be regarded as complimentary and not superior-subordinate. The latter strikes me as myopic; simpleton thinking.
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