Philosophy
Last week I was a teacher. Next week I will be a philosopher. This week I am a professional grader. So, a grade question.
Why are women better students? Not a universal claim, but on average my female students are better than my male students. A friend in admissions once said that if we went gender blind, the institution would be 75% female and this is the case almost across the board. Why is that?
Anecdotally, if I think back over my top of the top, A+, wow type students, there's gender parity. When I think about the next tier, though, the solid A/A- do really good thoughtful interesting consistent work, the women outnumber the men. What social factors account for this?
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Philosophy
Gender and Grades
Last week I was a teacher. Next week I will be a philosopher. This week I am a professional grader. So, a grade question.
Why are women better students? Not a universal claim, but on average my female students are better than my male students. A friend in admissions once said that if we went gender blind, the institution would be 75% female and this is the case almost across the board. Why is that?
Anecdotally, if I think back over my top of the top, A+, wow type students, there's gender parity. When I think about the next tier, though, the solid A/A- do really good thoughtful interesting consistent work, the women outnumber the men. What social factors account for this?
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Thinking about grades for obvious reasons. I am ambivalent about grades. On the one hand, it is certainly true that students rise to expectations and the mechanism by which those expectations are communicated is grading work. If one teacher gives the...
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We had an all-faculty conversation about advising the other day and then I met with my in-coming first year advisees just after this post came out on Crooked Timber. The post discusses gender and student expectations concerning student-faculty relationships....
- How Do You Change A Culture?
A wonderful piece over at Mad Melancholic Feminista the other day wherein Aspazia argues for the value of female only colleges. Her significant other is a biology prof at an all-female institution and Spaz was marvelling at an assignment his students...
- Are Professors Biased?
"Professors Are Prejudiced, Too" by Dolly Chugh, Katherine L. Milkman, and Modupe Akinola May 9th, 2014 The New York Times In the world of higher education, we professors like to believe that we are free from the racial and gender biases that afflict...
- Will The "cultural Barriers" Be Overcome In Philosophy Departments Too?
Second-year Emily Hatch discusses how modern philosophers should interpret female stereotypes in classic philosophy texts in a Women in Philosophy meeting Thursday evening. "Female philosophers find a room of their own" Two female philosophy undergraduates...