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(For the record, I might have had to look up how to spell likable…even dictionary.com wasn’t clear on the matter, but, since for “likeable” it just said “see likable”, I went with the latter.)
So we all probably remember how Larry Summers got himself in trouble at Harvard for reporting on academic hypotheses and findings that males [...]
A new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper:
Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap
“Why aren’t there more women in science? Female college students are currently 37 percent less likely than males to obtain a bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and comprise only 25 percent of the STEM [...]
Tags: Gender
I usually try to not parrot what is in other economics blogs (especially since you can now easily find it yourself on the Econ Around The Web page), but this particular post was just too appropriate:
Why Didn’t a Woman Write Freakonomics?
“Alison Flood, writing on The Guardian’s Books Blog, asks why Freakonomics and most other books [...]
Tags: Gender
Normally I don’t like to just parrot content from other blogs, but Alex Tabarrok on Marginal Revolution does such a good job of summarizing the latest talk on gender differences and math ability that I had to include it here. Basically, the research shows that males, while having the same mean in terms of [...]
Tags: Discrimination · Gender
Back in my undergraduate days, I studied theoretical computer science…you know, algorithms and such. I have to admit that I don’t use most of what I learned, and much of it is in fact very fuzzy by now. That said, there are random concepts that come forth as still being relevant. For [...]
