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from the this-will-not-be-controversial-oh-no-sir dept.
GungnirSniper writes:
"Catherine Rampell at The Washington Post has 'A message to the nation's women: Stop trying to be straight-A students.'
In her analysis of others' findings, she writes of a discouragement gradient that pushes women out of harder college degrees, including economics and other STEM degrees. Men do not seem to have a similar discouragement gradient, so they stay in harder degree programs and ultimately earn more. Data suggests that women might also value high grades more than men do and sort themselves into fields where grading curves are more lenient.
'Maybe women just don't want to get things wrong,' Goldin hypothesized. 'They don't want to walk around being a B-minus student in something. They want to find something they can be an A student in. They want something where the professor will pat them on the back and say "You're doing so well!"'
'Guys,' she added, 'don't seem to give two damns.'
Why are women in college moving away from harder degrees?"
(Score: 2) by juggs on Thursday March 13 2014, @01:30AM
Be careful how you express your dreams in public.
MLK Jr. and MalcolmX (although he referred to an American nightmare more than a dream per se) put their dreams into microphones, didn't exactly end well in either case.
Seems there is something dangerous about sharing a "dream" that could upset whatever the status quo is at any given point in time. Whether one chooses to interpret that as enforced compliance or just symptomatic of human herd behaviour is an exercise for the reader.