smokely wrote:i am an educated and very very secular turkish guy and these are bullshit.
Women in Turkey do not have equal access to education and other opportunities, as the “gender gap” in test scores reveals.
Telegraph wrote:Boys born better at maths than girls 'myth'
By Kate Devlin: 30/05/2008
Boys are not born better at maths than girls, and differences in exam results are down to nurture not nature, major international research has shown.
Scientists have long debated whether mathematical ability is the result of biological or social factors. Although girls tend to do better in maths classes, global studies show they are often outperformed by male classmates in tests.
But when the researchers compared the results with international standards on access to education and equality, they found they were closely linked. In Britain, girls fared only slightly less well than male classmates, with female pupils scoring an average of 0.7 per cent less.
In Scandavian countries there was almost no difference in test scores, and girls sometimes bettered boys.
However, in countries such as Turkey, girls tended to do worse than average, scoring four per cent less than boys.
Not only did the average score of girls improve as their opportunities increased, the number of women achieving high scores also rose.
“The gap doesn’t exist in countries in which men and women have access to similar opportunities.”
Prof Sapienza said: “In more gender equal societies, girls gain an advantage.”