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Girls and Math: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

August 7, 2008 - 8:24 am - by Joanne Jacobs
A Stoner
2008-08-07 09:17:16

I guess the recent study that shows that women and math are on a steep bell curve while men and math are on a shallow bell curve must have been missed by you. Women still are not on PAR with men when it comes to the very highest levels of math. While 1 in a million women might make it to the very top, and 1 in a million women might not have any ability at all in math. 10 in a million men might make it to that spot.

Of course, when you are bad at math, you necessarily start to truncate decimal points. So, now that women can compete on a scale of 1 to 100 and reach the 99% rating as often as men can, it eludes you that when that 99 turn into 99.999% that there are 10 times as many men and when it reaches 99.999 there are 100 times as many men as women in these catagories.

It also could be argued, and has been, that this is not s zero sum game. Women have basically made this progress at the expense of the men, because education has shifted so far into the whats best for women, that male students are left behind.

I am glad that women are doing better. I am upset though that in order to get women to be equals to men, that men have to be brought down instead of women brought up to.