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Women Shy Away From STEM Majors for Other Reasons Than Just Difficulty of Degrees
Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2014-03-20 01:13
Article here. Excerpt:
'The Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell published an article in their Opinions section on Mar. 10 telling every woman to “Stop trying to be straight-A students.”
Her reasoning was not so that women do not intimidate their future husbands, but because they “might be limiting your earning and learning potential.”
Rampell talked about studies done that found the likelihood a woman would major in an STEM major decreased as her grade fell. So women who received a B in Econ 101, the class used in her examples, were about 50 percent as likely as women who received A’s to continues with economics as their major.
Rampell said research suggests women may value high grades more than men do, which entices them toward majors where the grading curves are more lenient. Apparently many more women enter college with a STEM major than graduate with a degree in these fields.'
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Well, the answer is obvious!
Grade guys on one scale and girls on another! Simple, just like how it'll end up in the armed forces for physical req'ts. (Actually, it's that way now, just it'll end up that way for combat roles, too.)
They do this now too with marathons. In the MANN post not long ago re the LA Marathon, the "first runner across the line!" was female, who like the other female runners had a near-20 min. head start. She also collected in total prize money three times what the first male runner in got, as she received some kind of "Gender Challenge" prize for being not-as-behind the first male runner to finish as was expected.
I guess this is like getting paid extra in baseball for batting .25 instead of .20. You happen to suck *less* than expected for what's typical, and so you get paid more. But in baseball, the rules aren't different for each player based on, say, height, weight, eye color, etc. But apparently, that isn't true for 26-mile-long races.