'Stop trying to make girls take science': It goes against their human nature

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2689540/Stop-trying-make-girls-science-It-goes-against-human-nature-claims-psychologist.html

by darthgoogle • 12 years ago

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darthgoogle• 12 years ago

Is there any research on this topic to support what this psychologist claims?

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/claim-gender-jo...

AN ACADEMIC has said schools should "give up" trying to attract more girls into traditionally male subjects such as physics, computing and engineering.

Dr Gijsbert Stoet said there was little point trying to bridge the gender divide in education as differences between boys and girls meant they would always be drawn to different subjects.

The academic, who is based at Glasgow University's Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change, said: "We probably need to give up on the idea that we will get many female engineers or male nurses."

He added that initiatives to reduce gender divides "completely deny human biology and nature".

'Stop trying to make girls take science': It goes against their human nature

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