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As reported by Rick Reis (2006) in Tomorrow's Professor, Message(2006)
#717, "Proof and Prejudice: Women in Mathematics," Lisa Trie
in the "Stanford Report of 15 February 2006 wrote:
"According to [Londa] Schiebinger, women earn 46 percent of
undergraduate math degrees in this country but represent only 8
percent of math professors."
What are we supposed to ascertain from this?
Should we assume that women and men are "equal" in some way -- that
women have the same thinking as men -- that they have the same goals
and values -- and that there should be an equivalent number of
female
professors -- so something must be wrong in these cases?
Or should we realize that women have better sense than to go into
education -- that they have different goals and values than men?
Jim
J M Green
Email: MailTo:JMGreen@sisna.com
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