Women Suck!

[andrewducker]

Studies have shown that girls do better in all girl's schools than they do in mixed schools.

Which makes this study particularly interesting.

It's hard to summarise more than it already is, but it shows that when women compete with men and women they don't improve their performance significantly, whereas men do. Women competing solely with Women _do_ improve their performance, it's just when competing in mixed circumstances that they don't seem to improve as much.

I'm not sure what's going on, but it definitely deserves researching in more details to see what's going on.

Comments

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Beyond a certain age as well there's a social pressure on girls to underperform or be considered unattractive to boys.

I think it's mostly this really. Smart women aren't on the whole regarded as sexy, or if they are as still too scarey to go out with : Xander Harris and the owner of this LJ being exceptions :-) I am glad i went to a (mostly - long story single sex girl's school even tho it did nothing for my social/sexual development , it did a hell of a lot for my secure notion that Being Bright was a Good Thing.

[nickys.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure, from some of the things he's said, that one of my Unloving Brother-in-Law's hangups is that I have a degree and he doesn't.

Luckily this doesn't seem to bother original_aj at all. Nor does the fact that I used to earn more than him (that other classic male ego problem area for relationships).


There are quite a few men who don't fall for the stereotype and who think intelligent, competant women are sexy.

[andrewducker]

You talk to people that don't have degrees?

Do you have to scrub extra-hard afterwards?

[nickys.livejournal.com]

Not only that, I sleep with someone who doesn't have a degree... :o)

[andrewducker]

Good Lord Woman! Have you no shame?

[nickys.livejournal.com]

I don't think I approve of shame... :o)

[andrewducker]

Me neither. It's one of those things that make little sense to me, like obscenity or religion.