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From: timlee@bnrmtv.UUCP (Timothy Lee)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Why are there so few [female|black] physicists?
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Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 12:05:17 EDT
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> 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.

And note that most high school English teachers are female, while high school
Math teachers tend to be male.