Re: [WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

From: Puppy puppy@KillerChihuahua.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:18:48 -0500

David Gerard wrote:

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Also, you know how any technical field laments the strange lack of women? Technical fields have had that strange lack of women for a hundred years and still there's no solution to what the heck is culling them so early.

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If you are interested: http://www.springerlink.com/content/v006kt042w30045r/

http://www.american.edu/sadker/thereportcard.htm

http://jte.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/53/2/168

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCG/is_2_30/ai_105478982

http://www.maec.org/beyond.html And from this last link:

*GENDER BIAS IN STUDENT/TEACHER INTERACTIONS*

Although most teachers believe that they treat girls and boys the same, research indicates that they frequently do not. Studies show that teachers often exhibit differential behavior even though circumstances do not warrant it. The teacher' sex seems to have little bearing on the outcome; it is the sex of the student that seems to make a difference. For example:

* Male students receive more of the teacher's attention (acceptance,
  praise, criticism, and remediation) and are given more time to
  talk in class from pre-school through college.^8
* Although differences among subject matter areas have not been well
  examined, recent research has found student-teacher interaction in
  science classes to be biased toward boys.^9
* Sex is a factor in the assignment of students to ability groups in
  mathematics, and males are more likely to be assigned to the high
  ability group.^10
* Males receive harsher punishment than girls even for the same or a
  similar offense.^11
* Teachers ask boys more higher order questions than they ask 

girls.^12

Some researchers suggest that differences in treatment contribute to girls' lower self-esteem, lower self-confidence, and reduced risk taking.

I gotta say, I just spent 3 years teaching mathematics at a state university where the math department was over 50% female (students, not professors). More of my better students were female, in Calculus, Differential Equations, Group Theory, etc. These were some high self-esteem, confident, risk-taking chicks (to use the PC expression). I realize this school is an exception, but it appears that, at least in some communities, these trends are on the decline.

GTBacchus

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