by: Nicole Murgia
Nora S. Newcombe is the writer behind the essay titled Taking Science Seriously: Straight Thinking About Spatial Sex Differences however, in my opinion, there is no “straight thinking” behind any of the points or examples she dis…
Cocktail Tall Tale?
By: Shannon Laughlin
One of the fondest memories from my childhood was playing a “card deck” format workbook of brain teasers, called “Brain Quest.” The questions would often ask you to answer a riddle or move an object in …
“Wait, you play World of Warcraft? And you’re a girl? But you look so… normal.”
I have had this conversation, and many variations of it, countless times over the past several years. Inherent in this question are a number of preheld notions and …
by Lillie Mucha
My vaguely-considered curiosity presented in response to the previous chapter – “it is important to recognize that the physiology and hormones in males and females are different” (Mucha 2015(a)) – was greatly expanded on…
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In chapter 5, Larry Summers’ speech on the unbalanced distribution of two genders in STEM fields is once again mentioned. However, what is different is that Newcombe has an interesting qual…
The Right Rebuttal
By: Shannon Laughlin
Before taking this class, I had heard of Larry Summers, former President of Harvard, but did not know much about him. After all, I was only in third grade when he triggered an uproar in the math and science comm…
alternatively titled: “How Many Discussions does it take to Challenge an Assumption?”
by Lillie Mucha
Elizabeth S. Spelke and Ariel D. Grace respond to the debate over Lawrence Summers’ comments with a deep understanding of the assumptio…
To all the ladies reading this blog: Save the energy/time and give up. We will have a better chance in succeeding in something we are actually good at than in something that we are forcing ourselves to believe is true. Instead of bothering to read thes…
Are men “more oriented to objects”, more “gifted” at math and spatial tasks, and more capable of having the better brain for science? These are the questions that Spelke and Grace tackle in their essay Sex, Math and Science. They try to take th…
by: Nicole Murgia
Elizabeth S. Spelke and Ariel D. Grace further investigate the prejudice women face in the math and science fields in their essay, Sex, Math, and Science. At this point in the knowledge I believe I have obtained from studying the diff…