Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site hpvcla.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tikal!hplsla!hpvcla!carolp
From: carolp@hpvcla.UUCP (carolp)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Women's handwriting
Message-ID: <16300002@hpvcla.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 22:29:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: hpvcla.16300002
Posted: Tue Oct  8 22:29:00 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Oct-85 17:26:11 EDT
References: <51@drutx.UUCP>
Lines: 18
Nf-ID: #R:drutx:-5100:hpvcla:16300002:000:786
Nf-From: hpvcla!carolp    Oct  8 19:29:00 1985


>> 	Why does it SEEM to be a standard rule that the handwriting of women
>> is far superiour to that of men?  
>>                        (Lance Bailey @ UWO  Comp Sci, London, Canada)

> I think women in our society are
> taught to pay a lot more attention to how things look than men do.

> Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)

I suspect it is because as second- or third-graders, girls are typically better
able to deal with classwork, or have better fine motor coordination (inborn
or conditioned, I have no idea).  If you "master" handwriting when it's first
taught, you will probably have legible handwriting for a long time.  If you
weren't very good at it in grade school, there's little motive to improve later
on.

Carol Peterman   hplabs!hp-pcd!hpvcla!carolp