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What no one knows for sure is just how hardwired the brain is. How far and at what stage can the brain's extraordinary flexibility be pushed? Several studies suggest that the junior high years are key. Girls show the same aptitudes for math as boys until about the seventh grade, when more and more girls develop math phobia. Coincidentally, that is the age at which boys start to shine and catch up to girls in reading...
...probably need remedial work in the statistics of "averages" yourself. Just as some women are taller and stronger than some men, some are swifter at abstract algebra. Many of the pioneers in the field of X-ray crystallography -- which involves three- dimensional visualization and heavy doses of math -- were female, including biophysicist Rosalind Franklin, whose work was indispensable to the discovery of the double-helical structure...
...more often and pushing them harder. Myra and David Sadker, professors of education at American University, have found that girls do better when teachers are sensitized to gender bias and refrain from sexist language, such as the use of ) "man" to mean all of us. Single-sex classes in math and science can also boost female performance by eliminating favoritism and male disapproval of female achievement...
...issue: Given that there may be real innate mental differences between the sexes, what are we going to do about them? A female advantage in reading emotions could be interpreted to mean that males should be barred from psychiatry -- or that they need more coaching. A male advantage in math could be used to confine girls to essays and sonnets -- or the decision could be made to compensate by putting more effort into girls' math education. In effect, we already compensate for boys' apparent handicap in verbal skills by making reading the centerpiece of grade-school education...
Finally, there is a benefit for the registrar, TFs and professors: self-scheduled exams eliminate the bogus sick-out. Instead of walking into UHS with a cough, students would need to produce a disease that incapacitates them for two weeks. The 24-hour flu approach to postpone that Math 21a final until March just...