Well, one difference that I have noticed in my years is that men are much less supportive and enabling in communities than women, and men tend to be more confrontational. I don't know why, it could be cultural, upbringing, genetics, biology, whatever. I'd like to see that change because I think everyone will benefit.
I think this thread more or less illustrates the disparity. :D That's my two bits... .hc On Sep 23, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> yes is basically valid for all people that are not white males or >> in other words for all the people that have different cognitive >> styles than the dominant western white model. > > I can fetch you quite a few women and/or arabic or latino or > whatever you want, who are perfectly comfortable with so-called > western white male cognitive style, that they themselves are profs > holding doctorates. > > Meanwhile, when I was in university, I could hardly focus, I had a > wandering mind, a tendency to nap in the classroom, trouble > actually getting myself to attend classes, and most of all, I was > much more concerned by knowledge in general than by actual grades, > and by cross-course reasonings than by sticking to one course's > assumptions and biases and blind-spots and to whatever the prof says. > > Meanwhile, the often-reported fact is that girls score better in > schools and you have magazine reports on what's the matter with the > boys in schools because they underperform and fail so much. > > 19-year-old undergraduates in QC are 40% male, 60% female (figures > of 2003, published in 2007). > > A decade ago, for undergraduates regardless of age: In Medicine/ > Dentistry/etc (grouped together) it was 77% female. In Litterature > it was 72%, in Biology it was 58%, in Chemistry 44%, and in Math > 40%, just to give a few examples. The report I have doesn't say the > figure for Psychology, but looking at "Class of 2004"-type > portraits of UdeM it is obviously around 95%. > > So I don't quite think that the main dividing lines in education > methodologies are at all involving gender issues. Women seem > happier in the current school system than men are. > > _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... > | Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801, Montréal QC > Canada_______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
