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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bdgee: [QB] Somehow you are missing the point. I did not say "...women are being offered the same opportunities as men in academia". You found one reason for the statistical results you quote when you noted that your daughter was turned off mathematics at an early age. Most people, be they male or female, never come close to the level of knowledge required to succeed in graduate school in any area. The culture of the society, not the schools, denies to the graduate schools in mathematics and the hard sciences the chance to ever have most female students. (There is also more than a little possibility that harmones and the resulting compelling desire to procreate sidetracks the vast majority of females that might have the necessary background for academic pursuit at that level of scholarship.) (In another ignored consequence, in our modern culture, of the drive to have more (and more expensive toys) than your neighbors and specially more than those guys across town is that many young males are unemployed and, thus, ignored by shear probabilities as not being "a good catch" exactly when they are of appropriate schollarly achievement and graduate school makes a good place to go wait your turn at the party. There is no doubt that there are biased faculty members in every school and in every department. Some of those biased faculty members are exactly the opposite of what you are angered by. I don't stand as a champion for ANY bias in the academic world, including that bias that bases it's cause on a claim of bias against females scholars. I've had to deal with those too. Actually, at the present time, I am far far more worried that the basic structuring of our lower lever education is gender biased so as to cause boys to "not fit in". There is something fundamentally wrong in a system that thinks doping boys to make them accede to being treated like little girls instead of the eager independent explorers of life they were designed to be. (Dope 'em up and keep 'em quiet and heap prasise on the girls right in front of the boys for being what nature made them naturally.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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