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Originally Posted by Delvo
I just get a "Pay me" page when I try it, which is probably what others have gotten too. But from what you told us about it...
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Your local university library--or even public library--should have a copy of
Science. I'd post the PDF somewhere, but that'd be 'gain the law...
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Originally Posted by Delvo
For various reasons, I have no faith in the their numerization of the nebulous and subjective concept of "gender equality".
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That's why they don't use a single measure:
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Originally Posted by Guiso et al.
(i) The World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Index (GGI) (10) reflects economic and political opportunities, education, and well-being for women. (ii) From the World Values Surveys (WVSs), we constructed an index of cultural attitudes toward women based on the average level of disagreement to such statements as: "When jobs are scarce, men should have more right to a job than women." (iii) The rate of female economic activity reflects the percentage of women age 15 and older who supply, or are available to supply, labor for the production of goods and services. (iv) The political empowerment index computed by the World Economic Forum measures women's political participation, which is less dependent on math skills than labor force participation. These four measures are highly correlated (table S2).
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This interaction between gender gap and GGI remains significant even when we insert an interaction between gender and log of GDP per capita, which suggests that the improvement in math scores is not just related to economic development, but to the improvement of the role of women in society.
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The article itself has references for those gender equity studies. Do you care to give specific objections to them? In this case, it does not appear to be a particularly "nebulous and subjective concept."
They also checked whether the results were dependent on biological/genetic differences between countries and found no such dependence.
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Originally Posted by Delvo
And since what you've described here of the findings boils down to "females are just plain smarter than males", I'm not sure whether to roll my eyes at that assertion being brought up by people who present themselves as defenders of fairness and the insistence that the sexes are essentially equal in all ways, or to feel encouraged that someone on that side finally at least mustered the honesty to admit that that's what they've really been sneakily saying all along (since they NEVER EVER object to the idea of males having any sort of inferiority in any way).
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Odd that you say that, because neither myself, nor the article itself make any such claim. Your strawman (!) "angry feminist" aside, the article merely states that the gender gap in math vanishes and the gender gap in reading increases in countries with more gender equity. The article does not make the claim that this implies women are smarter than men. I also do not make that claim.
Nor have I ever claimed "that the sexes are essentially equal in all ways." Studies of athletic performance, of both mean and peak athletes, across several different sports, run counter to that claim. My claim, and the essential point of the article, is that there appears to be little-to-no inherently sex-based difference in mathematical ability. Do you dispute that particular point?