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Blog 7 : Let’s Stop Arguing

Chelsea Eareckson
Blog on Chapter 9
 
Diane F. Halpern writes the essay, “Science, Sex, and Good Sense: Why Women Are Underrepresented in Some Areas of Science and Math,” attempting to deal with the psychosocial factors that influence how wome…

An Education on Estrogen – Chelsea Eareckson Blog 7

Chelsea Eareckson
Chapter 7 Blog
 
I walked into my AP Calc class first day of senior year, ready to conquer the class. However, when I began to search for a seat, I noticed that the class was predominantly male. Furthermore, the few girls in the …

Chelsea Eareckson- A Confused Reader (Blog 5)

Chapter 5 in the book Why Aren’t More Women in Science? by Ceci and Williams was probably one of my least favorites. Nora Newcombe is yet another expert that attempts to define the cause for the sex discrepancy in the STEM fields. In my opinion, her …

Chelsea Eareckson: The Puberty Problem (Blog 4)

Chelsea Eareckson
The Puberty Problem
Childhood is a time of laughter, learning, and love. It is also a time of establishing patterns of bias and sexism, according to Elizabeth S. Spelke and Ariel D. Grace. Spelke and Grace work to dispel commonly cite…