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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Why are there so few [female|black] physicists?
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>>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.
 
Cheryl:
>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.
 
I was on the tag end of a group of teacher's pets in fifth grade science.
Walking to lunch one day she sighed, and said in a couple of years we'd throw
this all over for other things.  I took it as a challenge.

I don't think it's true that the ability diminishes.  The confidence in one's
ability does, sometimes, and so does the confidence to demonstrate the ability
in front of men.

I was blessed in high school with gifted teachers who weren't partial to 
students of one gender or another.  One in particular..., well, the world lost 
some color when Ed White left us.

l s chabot