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From: cheryl@batcomputer.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Why are there so few [female|black] physicists?
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Date: Mon, 21-Jul-86 12:16:36 EDT
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>> It is obvious to anyone who has watched children develop that not all
>> individuals are created equal.  There is much other evidence of this
>> too.  You may indeed prefer to believe otherwise, but that doesn't
>> change reality.
>
>There is much evidence that shows girls have equal ability to solve abstract
>problems, and that ability diminishes because they discouraged from exercising
>it. That is reality too, even if *you* prefer to believe otherwise.

There is also a correlation between the predominant sex of the teachers
at a stage of education, and which sex student excells at that stage.
Girls are better students than boys in elementary school--where most
of the teachers are women.  The situation reverses in high school and
college--where most of the teachers are men.

Cheryl