From: Puppy <puppy(a)KillerChihuahua.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:18:48 -0500
David Gerard wrote:
Also, you know how any technical field laments
the strange lack of
women? Technical fields have had that strange lack of women for a
hundred years and still there's no solution to what the heck is
culling them so early.
- d.
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If you are interested:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v006kt042w30045r/
http://www.american.edu/sadker/thereportcard.htm
http://jte.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/53/2/168
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCG/is_2_30/ai_105478982
http://www.maec.org/beyond.html
And from this last link:
*GENDER BIAS IN STUDENT/TEACHER INTERACTIONS*
Although most teachers believe that they treat girls and boys the same,
research indicates that they frequently do not. Studies show that
teachers often exhibit differential behavior even though circumstances
do not warrant it. The teacher' sex seems to have little bearing on the
outcome; it is the sex of the student that seems to make a difference.
For example:
* Male students receive more of the teacher's attention (acceptance,
praise, criticism, and remediation) and are given more time to
talk in class from pre-school through college.^8
* Although differences among subject matter areas have not been well
examined, recent research has found student-teacher interaction in
science classes to be biased toward boys.^9
* Sex is a factor in the assignment of students to ability groups in
mathematics, and males are more likely to be assigned to the high
ability group.^10
* Males receive harsher punishment than girls even for the same or a
similar offense.^11
* Teachers ask boys more higher order questions than they ask
girls.^12
Some researchers suggest that differences in treatment contribute to
girls' lower self-esteem, lower self-confidence, and reduced risk taking.
I gotta say, I just spent 3 years teaching mathematics at a state university
where the math department was over 50% female (students, not professors).
More of my better students were female, in Calculus, Differential Equations,
Group Theory, etc. These were some high self-esteem, confident, risk-taking
chicks (to use the PC expression). I realize this school is an exception,
but it appears that, at least in some communities, these trends are on the
decline.
GTBacchus
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