Men, Women, and Ghosts in Science

[Al-khiyal]

An academic row has erupted after one of the world's leading scientific journals refused to publish an article which claims that men and women think differently.

Peter Lawrence, a biologist and fellow of the Royal Society, accused Science of being "gutless" after it explained that its decision was because the piece did not offer "a strategy on how to deal with the gender issue".

In his paper, Mr Lawrence questioned why, when 60 per cent of biology students are female, only 10 per go on to become professors.

This "leaky pipeline" has been blamed on discrimination and a lack of choice which, if corrected, will produce equal numbers of men and women in science.

But Mr Lawrence dismissed "the cult of political correctness" that insists men and women are "equivalent, identical even" and argued that "men and women are born different"....

Scientists are split on the different ways men and women think

Peter Lawrence essay: Men, Women, and Ghosts in Science


Know thine enemy, girls.

[phylay]

It is said that "...ghosts bias our perceptions and censor our thoughts.".
Is it the case of every single ghost ya khiyal?
The idea of my mind full of ghosts is just scary!

[Al-khiyal]

Originally posted by phylay
It is said that "...ghosts bias our perceptions and censor our thoughts.".
Is it the case of every single ghost ya khiyal?

la2, there are some friendly and non-censorious spirits in the world ya phylay. Maybe nobody sees them but you'll have to trust in Karl Popper about the truth of that.

[Amina-DZ]

Men use more gray matter, women use more white

Researchers stressed that just because the two sexes think differently, this does not affect intellectual performance.

Their findings show that in general, men have nearly 6.5 times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligence compared with women, whereas women have nearly 10 times the amount of white matter related to intelligence compared to men.

In human brains, gray matter represents information processing centers, whereas white matter works to network these processing centers.

More... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6849058

[Al-khiyal]

That's a far more useful piece of research, ya Amina, than the determinist garbage Lawrence is pushing. And Lawrence never really addresses certain other issues that may go some way to explaining why women meet barriers in the working world of science.

[Al-khiyal]

Everyone has a favorite.

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president of George Washington University, recommends Shirley Ann Jackson who is a theoretical physicist, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Donna E. Shalala, health and human services secretary in the Clinton administration, would be perfect, suggests Paul S. Grogan, president of the Boston Foundation, because she's "tough" and "politically savvy."

Leon Botstein, president of Bard College in New York, wants a scientist such as Shirley M. Tilghman, a molecular biologist and president of Princeton University who would push a bolder science curriculum.

As some of the nation's business, academic, and nonprofit leaders contemplate a new president for Harvard University, they offer an array of suggestions about who could triumph where president Lawrence H. Summers stumbled, and successfully lead the country's oldest and most influential university....

Women, scientists on wish lists for Harvard