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I do not understand how this achievement gap, as you call it, actually matters or is holding men back when men hold most of the advanced degrees, and wealth in this society. Well, …

Because alleged "awareness campaigns" which focus on the least common risk factors (and there are many such campaigns) are a major annoyance to me: it's well worth reviewing the ot…

Well. Firstly, the fact that you continue to use and insist on an overladen (with decades' worth of baggage) term that obscures what you're talking about, rather than just say what…

About the best way I can put this is via analogy. Imagine a patient with appendicitis who goes to a doctor, and the doctor just hands over a prescription for pain medication and sa…

Read the comment again. Gender roles are pervasive, but are more obvious for women, who tend to get defined in terms of their wombs rather than any individual characteristics. Esse…

I'm confused by what seems to be a non-sequitur. I'm talking about educational achievement, and there is an absolute, well-documented and undeniable gap there. While it's true that…

Of course "feminism" isn't a unified lockstep movement. But is there a thing, let's call it "pop feminism", which is widespread enough and whose adherents share enough basic ideas …

Books are tricky since the required funding/publicity tends to mean that only people with reactionary/highly-conservative viewpoints can break into that, and come with their own vi…

Sad that I need a throwaway account to talk about this, but such is life. Spend some time doing searches on terms like "gender grading gap" and reading the recent research. What yo…