I get The Wire from the Atlantic magazine people free every week day. I look quickly at it to see what issues the editors and writers are focusing on. I often feel that the topics are very temporary and not worth thinking about. But not today. I have seen this sort of thing many times. Since I believe women’s brains and tendencies are extremely valuable, I don’t like to see self-limitation on the part of promising women, or any woman, for that matter.
Bill
Catherine Rampell at The Washington Post on women in college. "A message to the nation’s women: Stop trying to be straight-A students. No, not because you might intimidate easily emasculated future husbands. Because, by focusing so much on grades, you might be limiting your earning and learning potential," Rampell writes. "The college majors that tend to lead to the most profitable professions are also the stingiest about awarding A’s. Science departments grade, on a four-point scale, an average of 0.4 points lower than humanities departments, according to a 2010 analysis ... And two new research studies suggest that women might be abandoning these lucrative disciplines precisely because they’re terrified of getting B’s," she explains. "I fear that women are dropping out of fields such as math and computer science not because they’ve discovered passions elsewhere but because they fear delivering imperfection in the 'hard' fields that they (and potential employers) genuinely love." The New Yorker's Maria Konnikova tweets, "Congrats @crampell on a great first column @washingtonpost. Why women should 'embrace meaningful mediocrity' for later success."
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Bill
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