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		<title>Half of Women Do Not Have “Female Brains”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[. . . and half of men do not have &#8220;male brains,&#8221; according to research of Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues. See Table 1 of Goldenfeld, Baron-Cohen, &#38; Wheelwright, 2005, Empathizing and systemizing in males, females and autism, Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 2, 338–345. More details are below. Although this finding is based on data collected for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mathedck.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10890896&amp;post=276&amp;subd=mathedck&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session on the Participation of Girls and Women in Mathematics at the Joint Meetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Background. This series of talks will focus on the participation of girls and women in mathematics, and what can hinder or enhance it. Some speakers have documented and analyzed the participation of women and girls, others are engaged in projects that enhance their participation. Here are some relevant statistics. (For discussion of other frequently used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mathedck.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10890896&amp;post=257&amp;subd=mathedck&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Accounts of the Common Core State Standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mathematicians Sol Garfunkel and David Mumford discuss the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS) in their August 24 New York Times editorial “How to Fix Our Math Education,” concentrating their remarks on high school. In contrast, the education researcher Andrew Porter and colleagues concentrate on Grades 3–6 and 8 in “Common Core Standards: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mathedck.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10890896&amp;post=242&amp;subd=mathedck&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Louise Hay Minisymposium at the Joint Mathematics Meetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The minisymposium consisted of talks by winners of the Association for Women in Mathematics Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education and a panel, &#8220;The Mathematical Education of Teachers and the Common Core&#8221; at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans. Background. The Common Core Standards Initiative of the National Governors&#8217; Association and the Council of Chief [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mathedck.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10890896&amp;post=200&amp;subd=mathedck&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statistics on women in STEM</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ceci and Williams&#8217;s February 8, 2011 article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says: Since 1970, women have made dramatic gains in science. . . . In the most math-intensive fields, however, women&#8217;s growth has been less pronounced (2–4). Among the top 100 US universities, only 8.8–15.8% of tenure-track positions in many math-intensive fields (combined across [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mathedck.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10890896&amp;post=188&amp;subd=mathedck&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Tierney and The Mathematics of Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June, the New York Times published two articles on women in science written by John Tierney: “Daring to Discuss Women in Science” (June 8, 2010) and “Legislation Won’t Close Gender Gap in Sciences” (June 15, 2010). In my view, these articles do not accurately represent current research. Tierney’s June 8 article, which discusses Wai [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mathedck.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10890896&amp;post=138&amp;subd=mathedck&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rumors of Our Rarity are Greatly Exaggerated: Bad Statistics About Women in Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The essay originally in this location was updated and published in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics in July of 2011. It can be downloaded free of charge here. The abstract is below. Below that are sources of statistics about women in STEM. Last are updates about the garbled statistics discussed in the Journal of Humanistic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mathedck.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10890896&amp;post=47&amp;subd=mathedck&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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