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Originally Posted by Neverfly
You know- since when do teenage girls NOT buck the system?
Tell them to do this- and they do that. Tell them not to do that- they do this anyway...
You make it sound like a bunch of does willingly do as their told. By their Mothers and Peers I might add?
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You don't know much about teenage girls. Peer pressure is
enormous. "Bucking the system" is punished with swift retribution from the other girls. At bare minimum, by complete isolation. I am old enough to remember the talking Barbie who said, among other things, "Math is hard!" I'm not as old as Kaptain K, so things were getting better by the time I was in high school. My advanced math class was about even. My physics class actually had more girls than boys, but since there were fewer than a dozen of us, I'm not sure it's an accurate sample of anything.
Here's a fun thought experiment. Name the greatest scientists, the greatest mathemeticians of all time. Marie Curie will probably be on your list; if she's not, shame on you. But other than Rosalind Franklin, Barbara McClintock, and Grace Hopper, who do you have?