Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Gender bias...

Gender bias...  Take a look at the chart at right (via Carpe Diem).  Of the ten most commonly conferred bachelor's degrees:
  • 7 are predominantly conferred to women
  • 1 is predominantly conferred to men
  • 2 are conferred roughly equally to men and women
The one degree dominated by men is engineering, which comports with my own experience. 

Are these freely made choices by the student entering school?  Or are they determined by cultural context and expectations?  I suspect the former, though these days that's not a politically correct position to take...
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  1. LarryAugust 12, 2014 at 7:52 AM

    "Are these freely made choices by the student entering school? Or are they determined by cultural context and expectations? "

    Well there's your problem..... we let them choose for themselves. I guess we'll have to choose for them.

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