Women report not “getting up the nerve” to ask questions, so researchers propose that “question time be unlimited” at scientific talks. Because, you know, time is a construct. If you won’t hang around waiting for others to speak, you must be a misogynist.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202743 …
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Yes, and if I remember the discussion correctly, Helen, you followed up the "men-default human" premise with the idea: it follows therefore that if women aren't making the same choices men are, they're doing something wrong or have fallen prey to malicious patriarchy programming.
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That is the claim, yes. I'm not sure if you see the same inconsistency that Rebecca does or not? Do you think if we accept that men & women differ on average, this gives us a responsibility to alter things to make women do the same things as men?
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I default to an anti-engineering bias when discussing solutions here. In the spirit of academic noblesse oblige the best that can be done is to NOT discourage women, in any reasonable context...and I think we may be there or close to there.
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I heard that Oxford University introduced the option for students to do their exams at home, as girls weren't doing as well as boys in their exams in relation to their general aptitude, and they guessed this was to do with females being more nervous under exam conditions...
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Sounds great in theory, if checks and balances tag this type of accommodation imprudent for those wanting careers where performance under pressure is a desired feature....surgeon comes to mind.
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