[LMB] OT: Gender Roles

[Matthew George]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 9:43 PM Sylvia McIvers <sylviamcivers at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is this the point where they meet teachers who say girls can't do math?
>

Girls outperform boys in school throughout the Western world.  Where are
all these teachers stunting the development of girls?  Why did they
suddenly cease affecting female performance about a generation and a half
back?  And how are they still convincing girls not to take interest in
certain fields when their influence has otherwise magically disappeared?

Most of it.
>

Wrong.  The disparity in interest persists when financial need and cultural
opposition are eliminated - in fact, its manifestation on behavior becomes
=stronger=.  It persists even when culture actively tries to push women
=towards= those fields.


> > Yup. Girls get dress coded way more often than boys.
>

Today?


> Sylvia, who remembers classmates humiliated by the hemline rules.
>

We're discussing the present.  You seem to be discussing the past.

Matt G.