--- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3110594.stm
>
> "Women have overtaken men at every level of education in developed
> countries around the world.
>
> And girls are now more confident of getting better-paid, professional
> jobs than their flagging male counterparts.
>
> International education figures, published by the Organisation for
> Economic Co-operation and Development, show a consistent picture,
> across cultures and continents, of women achieving better results than
> men.
>
> The OECD survey is a detailed comparison of education achievement and
> spending in 43 developed countries.
>
> The success of girls is a complete reversal of what would have been
> expected a generation ago, said Andreas Schleicher, head of analysis at
> the OECD's education directorate.
>
> And he says that the 1990s have seen a remarkable change in women's
> expectations and achievements.
>
> The survey found that in almost every developed country, 15-year-old
> girls are more confident than boys about getting high-income jobs.
>
> For example, in the United Kingdom, 63% of girls expect to have "white
> collar, high-skilled" jobs by the time they are 30, compared to only
> 51% of boys.
>
> This picture of girls with higher expectations than boys is repeated in
> the United States, Japan, Italy, Spain, Germany, France and Australia.
>
> And girls have good reason to be more confident than boys, because
> academically, around the globe, they are more successful - which is
> likely to lead to higher-income jobs. "
"Andreas Schleicher says there are "troubling signs" that boys are more
susceptible to being put off education by disruptions in their home
environment.
Boys seem less able to overcome obstacles to education, he says, whether it
is peer group pressure or a lack of family support.
"
What about an education system and workplace that are now more focused on
empathic and rote memorization ability than on problem solving ability?
"Womens lib" has benificial effects, but it also has some detrimental effects
as well. I suggest that technolegy and buisness would be progressing much
faster had "Womens lib" never happened. The focus in the work place on
empathic systems rather than problem solving systems leads to a highly
political environement more focused on polotics than getting the job done.
Support for this can be shown in advancements made in the last century prior
to "womens lib" and those made after it.
If this were true, then a socity which desired to gain advantage by being
more efficient would recognize the abilities and benifits of both "gendered"
mindsets and the spectrum between the two extreems. And focus not on an
overreaching standard, but on the strengths of the individual, and the
benifits of the microcultures which employ both modles.
i.e. I think we are shifting from the standard being the "male" model to the
standard being the "female" model and this is why you see the numbers in the
article. At the same time I do not think that either extreem is the best one,
but rather the acceptance of individuals.
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