Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
There are certain things women are better at than men.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.
Women are better than men.
Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
Speaking as a biologist, I think women are less aggressive than men, and they play a larger role in the early education of the young and helping them overcome their genetic heirloom.
In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.
Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.
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