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[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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, pueblo at mail.ljudmila.org 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.
>
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