For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively
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Re: For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively
#2Significantly more Women graduate with a BS from US collages than Men. Is that yet another gender imbalance that needs to be addressed by schools? Or is that a societal issue and having collages focusing on increasing Male admission and graduation rates a waste of resources?
Re: For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively
#3With all due respect, I think it is in the DNA. Looking at our evolution during the past million years, may be women were dominated by men. They might not have had enough freedom to follow their curiosities until several thousand years back. So it will take more time to have their brain evolve to levels that current men's brain is at. Have we done enough comparative studies of men's and women's brains?
Re: For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively
#4With all due respect, I think it is in the DNA. Looking at our evolution during the past million years, may be women were dominated by men. They might not have had enough freedom to follow their curiosities until several thousand years back. So it will take more time to have their brain evolve to levels that current men's brain is at. Have we done enough comparative studies of men's and women's brains?
Are you serious? First you say its in the DNA, and went on to ask if research was done on it? How did you arrive at the ridiculous conclusion?
Re: For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively
#5The article mis-states their case: women earn 52% of chemistry undergrad degrees and 41% of straight-up math degrees. The problem is not math itself but the culture surrounding Engineering, Physics and Computer Science in particular.
Re: For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively
#6With all due respect, I think it is in the DNA. Looking at our evolution during the past million years, may be women were dominated by men. They might not have had enough freedom to follow their curiosities until several thousand years back. So it will take more time to have their brain evolve to levels that current men's brain is at. Have we done enough comparative studies of men's and women's brains?
Are you serious? First you say its in the DNA, and went on to ask if research was done on it? How did you arrive at the ridiculous conclusion?
I said "I think it is in the DNA." and not something like "I know for sure, it is in the DNA."
Re: For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively
#7Significantly more Women graduate with a BS from US collages than Men. Is that yet another gender imbalance that needs to be addressed by schools? Or is that a societal issue and having collages focusing on increasing Male admission and graduation rates a waste of resources?
Silly, if there are more women and having a degree is valued by society then there is no problem. If there were fewer women then that would be a problem that needed to be addressed urgently.
Re: For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively
#8The article mis-states their case: women earn 52% of chemistry undergrad degrees and 41% of straight-up math degrees. The problem is not math itself but the culture surrounding Engineering, Physics and Computer Science in particular.
As far as math is concerned, not even close to 40% of advances in the field are fostered by women.
In fact it seems that even though more women get Bscs in math, actual cutting edge research in math continues to be made by 10% of women at best, roughly the same ratio as a generation ago.
Still not a single Fields medalist is female (despite the tremendous backstage games to change that) and that is not because of bias, very few (if any) women currently deserve it.
Re: For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively
#9With all due respect, I think it is in the DNA. Looking at our evolution during the past million years, may be women were dominated by men. They might not have had enough freedom to follow their curiosities until several thousand years back. So it will take more time to have their brain evolve to levels that current men's brain is at. Have we done enough comparative studies of men's and women's brains?
If there is a biological reason, I think it would be more likely that it is because men have reasons to take risks and women haven't - other than men, women can almost always reproduce, no matter if they are rich or poor.
See "Is there anything good about men?" http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm
Re: For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively
#10Significantly more Women graduate with a BS from US collages than Men. Is that yet another gender imbalance that needs to be addressed by schools? Or is that a societal issue and having collages focusing on increasing Male admission and graduation rates a waste of resources?
"Significantly" is an exaggeration. The numbers i found (http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=News_Room&...) said that women earn 57% of all BS degrees.
I imagine it'd have to get closer to 75% before people actually started worrying about men's graduation rates.