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...economist, President Summers should recognize the possibility of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Stocks that are predicted to fail often do, and a political candidate can be aided by polls that anticipate her victory. Similarly, if men are expected to outperform women in the sciences, then this belief may affect hiring practices, and men who land high profile jobs with large research budgets will likely outshine women who have fewer resources. At the university level, male science students may be increasingly prejudiced against their female peers when forming study groups, and women looking for their academic niches might be steered toward...
...socialization and innate biological differences on this distribution, it is important that we continue scientific research in this area. But in the meanwhile, the position of aspiring female scientists and mathematicians, like myself, is harmed by the prejudices that result from the assumption that our sex is destined to fail. Furthermore, President Summers’ expression of this hypothesis ignores the role that prejudice plays in the employment and evaluation of women in science and sets back the important work that must be done to ensure equitable hiring practices...
...much matter whether they stem from differences in our biology or our upbringing...The tendency to treat one’s male and female children differently may itself have a biological basis. It is so ingrained and universal that the classic methods for teasing apart genes and environment fail to work. When biological twins are raised by different sets of adoptive parents, for example, both families are likely to share conceptions and feelings about boys and girls that lead to common patterns of differential treatment. In light of these differences, the close cognitive similarities between girls and boys...
...more, studies of how Americans invest their 401(k) accounts suggest that, given the chance to make choices, most can't even beat a basic index fund. People tend to chase last year's returns, sticking with stocks long after they have peaked, or invest too conservatively or fail to diversify. Still, there are reasons to think the public, particularly younger Americans, might be open to the idea of taking more control of their own retirement. As the New Deal generation dies off, it is being replaced by one far more skeptical about Social Security. In the TIME poll...
...just glad they’re letting me take it somewhere else instead of them saying ‘Take it at Harvard or fail,’” Fitzpatrick says...