Tuesday, 6 February 2007

Why are girls taking over the academic world?

As far as I can think back, education has become more standardized ever since the WWII.
By this, I mean the standardization of school cirriculum. Teaching of things have been very organized and modular. Females learn better as a result because they use the actual neurons (white matter) more than the connections (grey matter). This means that much less linking between subjects need to be made.

The amount of women being teachers outnumber the amount of male teachers. Girls generally need female mentors, whereas boys require male mentors. This is not because they need to pick up stereotypical gender roles, but because they need a sense of gender identity and someone to learn social skills from.

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