equality or inequality of the sexes Flashcards
how many men were given a nobel prize between 1901 and 2015
822
how many women were given a nobel prize between 1901 and 2015
48
who is lawrence summers
president of Harvard from 2001 and 2005
what was the contraversy behind lawrence summers
he claimed that there are few women scientists because they don’t have the same intrinsic aptitude that men have
what did lawrence summers actually say
there is a difference in the standard deviation and variability of a male and female population; greater male variability hypothesis
what did the gender, culture, and mathematics performance study show
there are no sex differences in math performance in US schools
male variance is greater
there are more males than females in 95 or 99th percentile but the gap is narrowing
there are societal differences in variances
in the 1970s-1980s what was the ratio of boys to girls in exceptional math talent
13:1; boys to girls
what did the math talent ratio decrease to
4:1
what is proven about math ability
it is plastic and a function of socialization (latino girls in US kindergartens outperform boys, Asian american girls are more exceptional than boys)
in what societies do women have a higher % of math talent
equal societies
in 2013 what was the percentage of researchers that were women
1/4 of all researchers in the world
what percentage of researchers are women in north america and europe
32%
are there more women or men at an undergraduate level
women
but thins out in higher levels
who studies and works more in the life sciences and psychology
women
what % of women are researchers in Bolivia
63%
what % of researchers in central asia are women
1/2
what % of engineering students are women in India
1/3
when was the royal society of london founded
1663
when was the first women elected to membership in the royal society of london
1943
when did France’s academy of sciences deny entrance to Marie Curie
1911
who was the first person to win two nobel prizes
marie curie
when were degrees awarded to women at cambridge
1921
when was the first woman admitted to harvard medical school
1945
what did Darwin say about women
he was exist and believed although women were morally superior, they were intellectually inferior
