{"id":899,"date":"2008-07-26T12:26:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=899"},"modified":"2008-07-26T12:26:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T18:26:11","slug":"girls-can-add","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"Girls Can Add"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/25\/education\/25math.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;oref=slogin\">this<\/a> fascinating.  Apparently, the gender gap in math achievement has vanished.  So much for the idea that men&#8217;s brains are more abstract than women&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>I do think the physical sciences will continue to be heavily male.  Because while it is now very clear women have the ability to do effective science, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/15\/science\/15tier.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">less clear<\/a> that a career in science is of overwhelming interest to them.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, maybe, in time, that will also prove to be false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find this fascinating. Apparently, the gender gap in math achievement has vanished. So much for the idea that men&#8217;s brains are more abstract than women&#8217;s. I do think the physical sciences will continue to be heavily male. Because while it is now very clear women have the ability to do effective science, it&#8217;s less &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=899\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Girls Can Add<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-ev","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}