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MistressMinna -> RE: Bowing my head before female supremacy.. (10/23/2009 10:17:36 AM)
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PolyVinyl
Women are wired differently, raised differently and often educated differently. In my mother's day schooling was fairly limited and I always remember her complaining about her options being home economics and motherhood! She was brilliant but had so few options to apply it. Because of that, all of her children were required to perform at very high levels in academics. We each had our talents but it was no surprise that all four of her children excelled at mathematics and science yet we each were encouraged artistically. I am significantly more mechanical than my three siblings because I was favored by my father and thus spent a lot of time doing "garage things". Design it. Build it. Fix it. I got to try it all.
Even with advanced academic instruction at the high school level (which equals college level today) and completing high school 2.5 years early, all school counseling was directed at placement in liberal arts programs. It was the 80s and the MBA was king so I went with the flow. Since you and I have talked you know that I would much rather have majored in physics and minored in mathematics because to me that is the key to the golden kingdom of high tech lab toys!
Today more and more women are being encouraged to train their brain in a way that produces more "mechanical intelligence" and hopefully the next generation will continue to even things out. That being said, if you have ever taken the Mensa exam, you know the threshold is higher for men than for women and since a significant portion of it is abstract reasoning (of which I believe "mechanical intelligence" is a subset) it may be just different wiring.
What I know for sure is I only took it because I was offended that the threshold for women was lower even though I understood the reasoning....and I blew through the male threshold.
So there. [sm=tongue.gif]
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