Reply #10: Oh let's see [View All]

[China_cat]

yes, I'm lousy at math and science even though they were some of my favorite subjects until I got to junior high. Where I found out that I was supposed to take home ec and was barred from shop (where math, at least was taught in the practical instead of the theoretical).

Where, in the public school I went to, girls were barred from physics and trig courses and were only reluctantly allowed to take anything more than basic algebra.

Yes, this WAS a lot of years ago. But we are the ones who have had to try to break through our own conditioning that we 'can't' do these things in order to allow our daughters to at least consider that they are capable and is only now trickling down to our grand-daughters who are allowed to say 'yes I can'.

And the president of Harvard is in the generation of males who were educated by proxy that women can't, and don't even realize that we weren't permitted...or were strongly discouraged from even trying.