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>The first one is rather useless.

No it isn't. It answers the questions you asked about why teachers favor boys in the classroom.

>But that is a bias - it is also possible they simply didn't want those things, and therefore didn't ask.

>Likewise with higher salary, perhaps women simply care less.

Read the damn book. The authors go on and give a class about negotiation in the school and starting salaries for women increased dramatically. If they didn't want higher salaries, that wouldn't have happened. They also released a followup to the book called "Ask for It" which taught asking and negotiation skills to women because women asked "ok, I don't ask for what I want, how can I learn how to ask for what I want?" If nobody cared then why would they demand a followup?



"The first one is rather useless.

No it isn't"

Sorry, I meant the first one from the long list - the second one you linked to. The one about the classrooms at least gives a good summary, but it doesn't say anything about the "why". And I get the impression the reality might have looked very different from what you imagine if you read the summary. For example they mention some stars might get all the attention - in that case most boys and girls would be neglected, except for some stars. That would be different from "girls are neglected vs boys".

I find that research interesting, as I said I just think people are jumping to conclusions from their observations.

"Read the damn book. "

What book - you mean the third link? I'll try, unfortunately it is not loading for me atm. Will try again tomorrow.




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