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To: JohnM who wrote (109386)4/15/2005 11:14:11 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793640
 
but one of the most critical is the degree to which, at similar positional levels, women are actually better than men. Not worse. It simply takes more smarts and more effort to advance in academia if you are female than male.

It has in the past, but the drive now to "balance" these things is resulting in quotas. We spent thousands of posts here on this subject while you were gone, and the distaff posters were very much on the female side. The obvious first cut solution is to "degender" applications and see how they are rated by the reviewers.

I suspect that Summers's speculation about innate gender differences for math is true. But that was not the point. What was the point, "back in the day," when we were discussing this at length, was the unwillingness of academia to even allow this subject to be discussed.
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