this is a subjective comment

No it is objective. It has been measured.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_intelligence

Most studies unambiguously find that men as a population are more varied than women in g (i.e. they have a higher variance and therefore there are more men than women at the extremes of ability).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_intelligence

Because it is the extremes that are relevant to the 'glass ceiling' debate.

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Boys-and-girls-learn-differently/2007/07/02/1183229020651.html

Boys and girls are different by nature; their brains are different, and they learn in different ways.

But that's no reason for parents to rush out and switch their kids from co-educational to segregated schools, or vice-versa.

The key lies in teaching their teachers about the differences, says American educator Michael Gurian, keynote speaker at a conference this week at Newcastle University in NSW.

The parenting and family expert said the old "nature versus nurture" argument was over.

"What we really need to do is nurture the nature," said Mr Gurian, founder of the Colorado-based Gurian Institute for training and researching how gender affects learning.

"New brain scanning technology clearly illustrates differences in the ways boys and girls react to stimuli, activity and rest, and debunks talk that these differences are simply the result of nurture.

If women controlled the world....

http://www.ozpolitic.com/funny/if-women-controlled-the-world.html

http://www.ozpolitic.com/funny/

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21777884-12274,00.html

IF one more person says the world would be a better place if it was ruled by women, I'll scream. Loudly, with lots of unladylike grimaces and flying spit.
Feminists are right to say chicks should fill about half the planet's leadership positions. But claiming this will result in a better, kinder, gentler globe is unmitigated crap, right up there with "I don't usually do this sort of thing on a first date" and (from Brazilian waxers) "it won't grow back for at least six weeks".

Contrary to popular mythology, women are not the fairer sex.

The harsh truth is that they can be as devious, vindictive and violent as the next man.

One of history's most prolific killers was Erzsebet Bathory, a Hungarian countess who tortured and murdered hundreds of girls on her family estate in Transylvania in the 16th century.

Bathory's modus operandi was to slit her victims' throats and bathe in their warm blood, sometimes after setting their pubes on fire.

Very feminine.

No doubt she would have loved a cup of tea and a little chitchat with Katherine Knight from rural NSW. This former abattoir worker was jailed for life in 2001 after stabbing her de facto partner 37 times and then skinning him, boiling his head and baking pieces of his buttocks with vegies.

Very Country Women's Association.

New research shows women are taking a leading role in terrorist attacks and blowing themselves up more often in suicide bombings.

They're also stepping up their involvement in sex crimes, with a disturbing increase in the number of women teachers arrested for inappropriate relationships with kiddies.

(If you're one of those sniggerers who reckons no sexual attention from a woman is ever unwanted by a bloke, put yourself in the place of the teenage boy gang raped with a rolling pin in Sydney in 2005 and imagine how you'd feel about the two girls charged over the attack. My guess is that it wouldn't be hubba-hubba.)

But new research shows women are taking a leading role in terrorist attacks and blowing themselves up more often in suicide bombings.

There is an interesting article in the weekend Australian magazine lamenting the stresses and pressures young girls are under and the unexpected results of equal rights and fast communication (internet, mobiles etc). It claimed that young girls were more tribal than ever before, relying more heavily on their peers for guidance and less on adults - they get a narrower source of information on important issues (including suicide). From 1960 to 2004, the ratio of young men to young women appearing before the NSW children's courts narrowed from 14-1 to 4-1. In a shorter time, official rates of delinquancy for girls rose 4 fold. Violent crime used to make up less than 10% of cases where girls appear before the court. Now it is 30%.

The article also claimed that girls got their first period on average at 16 a century ago and it has dropped to twelve. Is this right, and if so, is it a response to dietary problems, hormonal suppliments in our food chain and water, or stress? I always thought that it used to be younger, due to a poorer diet, and has been increasing.

I put it down to the fact that females are now being held responsible for their own actions.

The assumption ued to be that "girls" were good, whatever they did.
people are now moreso judged on what they do, not how rapidly they can lie and decieve.

freediver wrote on Jun 28^th, 2007 at 11:33am:


I understand they are anti-Nuclear and so therefore I will put them one for the chance!