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It's been their stated goal in academic hiring, so I don't think this is anything new.
It's worth noting that as of 2020, only 32.5% of full professors were women (https://www.aaup.org/news/data-snapshot-full-time-women-facu...). So still a sizable gap.
In stuff like that I don't trust the mainstream, nor I do trust any publication that is not very thorough. Since just establishing if a publication is thorough takes too much time for me I am content with a lot of question marks.
I accept that I do not know anything about general trends - only some personal stuff about myself and some people around me which may be or may not be representative.
Surprisingly you can still live well after you accept you are not required to have an informed opinion of this issue. You can still spend your time having fun and writing code
More women than men attend college as well. Women are not however overrepresented in the top 10 most dangerous jobs or the military or the homeless population. A lot of talk about the glass ceiling but none about the glass floor.
Not only that, but poorly performing students are more likely to be male, whilst excellent students are more likely to be female. This is true across almsot all disaplines.
Highest IQ in the world - probably a man.
Lowest - probably also a man.
Boardrooms - full of men.
Prisons - full of men.
It's been their stated goal in academic hiring, so I don't think this is anything new.
Yes, my first thought on reading the headlines was ,"Great---it's actually working!" It's worth noting that as of 2020, only 32.5% of full professors were women ( https://www.aaup.org/news/data-snapshot-full-time-women-facu... ). So still a sizable gap.
It's been their stated goal in academic hiring, so I don't think this is anything new.
Yes, my first thought on reading the headlines was ,"Great---it's actually working!" It's worth noting that as of 2020, only 32.5% of full professors were women ( https://www.aaup.org/news/data-snapshot-full-time-women-facu... ). So still a sizable gap.
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One of the best suggestions on dealing with this academic discrepancy is having boys take one more year in kindergarten, so that they are one year older than the girls in their grade / year. I'd take this one step further, and claim - from anecdata - that kids should be in quarters, and defer middle school until 6*4 or 7*4 quarters have been reached for girls and boys respectively. My class in highschool, mostly peop…
> having boys take one more year in kindergarten Functionally doing this with both of my children (though not repeating curriculum) after lots of debating and stress. Adding the expectation into the child's head of being "One of the Smart Ones" seems incredibly powerful moving forward.
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> having boys take one more year in kindergarten Functionally doing this with both of my children (though not repeating curriculum) after lots of debating and stress. Adding the expectation into the child's head of being "One of the Smart Ones" seems incredibly powerful moving forward.
I know that this is unsolicited advice, but be careful when putting such expectations to children. I know that it has caused me a lot of trouble and many regrets, mostly those of inadequacy even though in retrospect, my environment didn't enable me to flourish.
man parenting
No manual entry for parenting
* try and not do what our parents did to annoy us as children
* give them every support and opportunity we can
* Don't let them be assholes