When one sees a baby human, one’s response is typically along the line of “Aw, what a cute, precious baby! What’s the name?”
Insert societally-defined boy’s name here.
“Wow, he sure is handsome!”
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What if I asked about your attitude toward Lawrence Summer’s address that women’s innate reasons cause their absence in science? Well, the issue has been debated again and again that even for the same argument, there are lots of different explanati…
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…
The fourth essay featured in the book, Why Aren’t There More Women in Science? is titled “Sex, Math, and Science” and is by Elizabeth S. Spelke and Ariel D. Grace. Spelke and Grace discuss three main points throughout their essay, sex differences…
In “Sex, Math, and Science,” Elizabeth Spelke and Ariel Grace claim that there are no differences between the mathematical abilities of men and women; however, there are gender schemas that discourage women from joining the field. When I was a chi…
Elizabeth Spelke and Ariel Grace analyze the factors claimed by Harvard University’s president, Lawrence Summers, to account for the underrepresentation of women in the STEM fields in their essay “Sex, Math, and Science.” They provide research to…
The most famous and controversial opinion of why there are more men than women in the STEM field is from Harvard University’s former president, Lawrence Summers. Elizabeth S. Spelke and Ariel D. Grace’s essay “Sex, Math, and Science&#…
In chapter four, “Sex, Math and Science”, Spelke and Grace brought up a few “assumptions” that we may have when it comes to the reasons behind the sex differences in the field of math and science. For example, males are more orientated to objec…
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…
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In chapter 4 of Why Aren’t More Women in Math and Science, Elizabeth S. Spelke and Ariel D. Grace explore the topics of sex, math, and science and how each contribute to the disparity between men and wom…