{"id":24,"date":"2015-09-02T01:04:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T05:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswns2\/?p=24"},"modified":"2015-09-02T01:04:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T05:04:02","slug":"limitation-of-statement-and-ethic-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fyswns2\/2015\/09\/02\/limitation-of-statement-and-ethic-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"limitation of statement and ethic complex"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Women<\/a>

Women in Media Debate at The London Press Club. L-R Kay Burley, Carla Buzasi, Anne McElvoy, Lisa Markwell\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Underrepresentation or Misrepresentation<\/em>, Kimura points out women\u2019s lack of math ability as reason for their absence in math and science. Begin with irony to feminists, Kimura assails many social commonsense of women\u2019s situation. After asserting there is difference between women and men in mathematic ability which is innate and hasn\u2019t changed for a long time, he comes up with another viewpoint that such ability of math is to do with career choice, the combination of which is his main point. Along with several related parts about women\u2019s less interest in science and girl\u2019s low representation in doctorate as a lateral support, Kimura ended by putting forward a interesting alert: women have been overhired in scientific fields while men suffered academic discrimination.<\/p>\n

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Limitation of evidence and impatience to persuade<\/strong><\/p>\n

The essay sounds like a typical yet one-sided voice echoing in the debate about women\u2019s absence of science. As to me, the biological difference is an unavoidable hard nut to crack for women. However, the voice itself may have some limitations as well. It seems to me that based on a more logical part about objective research about ability difference of two genders, author tries to collect nuances as many as possible to support men-ruling theory. There\u2019s a very inappropriate example the author uses: women\u2019s high representation of secretarial work reflect female\u2019s better verbal capacity. Can we say that minorities have more finger dexterity so they undertook most labor works in US last century? Should the phenomenon make sense and be maintained? Also, author seems to try to find fault in women\u2019s relatively high representation in biology to associate it with women\u2019s superiority of language and inferiority of mathematics. I don\u2019t know if it can satisfy author if women don\u2019t gain high representation in all scientific fields. What will be the \u201creasonable\u201d explanation if one day women\u2019s representation in physics also increases? As for the last over-hire part, the way to describe the phenomenon is incomplete since it only mentions the hire ratio of women rather than the ratio of women to be hired as high position researcher. \u00a0\u00a0Many female faculties may suffer from career indifference and don\u2019t have chance for advance. \u201cForty years ago, women made up just three percent of full professors in science and engineering fields, a figure that inched up to ten percent sixteen years later, according to the NSF.\u201d(Why Men Dominate Math and Science Fields, by Jeanna Bryner)<\/p>\n

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Ethical complex<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we are going to discuss something important in research: the ethical principles. Whether or not these papers about gender difference moral? As a very complex core, research ethical code requires scientists to report their paper accurately and honestly, which involves with how to report to avoid producing misleading information or offer support for potential discrimination. My psychology teacher has been refused to do a research based on pregnant women\u2019s frequently forgetfulness because the research may bring potential information that pregnant is \u201cstupid\u201d. Also, \u201cStudy about people\u2019s interpretation of information conveyed by different color of clothes may offer support that women be blamed for what they wear when assault happens.\u201d Is the research about different IQ among races offering evidence for racist? Are so many informal researches displayed on television about different traits among \u201ctypes\u201d of people and races bringing bad influences to equality and supporting bias? Could scientists reject to do some research in spite of opportunities to publish articles as to avoid potential misrepresentation? I think the researches about gender differences are in such debate.<\/p>\n

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Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are many studies about gender differences. I believe we shall see them with critical thinking, realizing the complication these issues involve with, trying to accept partly but not wholly. At the same time we shall dispute the misleading and distorted interpretation of such studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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