Gender Makes A Difference Gender plays a major role in affecting one’s career choices, as we see in the essays “Oh, Come On, Men Aren’t Finished” by Christina Sommers and “When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is a Waste of Time” by Susan Jacoby. In the first essay, Christina Sommers talks about how women are creating their ways to pull ahead in some companies but men are still doing the hard dangerous work. Likewise, in the second essay, Susan Jacoby discusses why girls more likely tend to dislike math and science although they make high grades on them. Both of these authors demonstrated that people are more concentrated on gender instead of the effort a hard worker puts into the work. In their essays, Sommers and Jacoby told about the existence
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Sommers said, “Girls do better than boys in school. They get better grades, score higher on reading and writing tests, and are far more likely to go to college” (246). She considered that they were the better sex because they managed to listen to the teacher, do homework, study, and pay attention in class more than the boys. Likewise, Jacoby said that girls when they were younger did better in math tests, which relate to “masculine subjects” as defined in some stereotypes and require intellectual skills, concluding from the research of the National Institute from Education grant, girls at the age of 13 were equal or slightly better than boys in “tests involving algebra, problem solving, and spatial ability” (114). They both clarified that girls are capable of learning math, and there is no excuse for them to avoid these classes. They also proved that girls could always do better than boys in math if they set their mind to …show more content…
They showed that patriarchy was existed in which they would believe that some fields are for men rather than for women. They also assured that women and men should always be equal in gaining their educational rights. Yet, they identified that those girls, when they were young, were the better sex due to their performance in school during their teenage years. Finally, they figured out that the numbers of women in fields that have nothing to do with science or math are high and increasing since men have occupied the other fields such as science and math
Sommers said, “Girls do better than boys in school. They get better grades, score higher on reading and writing tests, and are far more likely to go to college” (246). She considered that they were the better sex because they managed to listen to the teacher, do homework, study, and pay attention in class more than the boys. Likewise, Jacoby said that girls when they were younger did better in math tests, which relate to “masculine subjects” as defined in some stereotypes and require intellectual skills, concluding from the research of the National Institute from Education grant, girls at the age of 13 were equal or slightly better than boys in “tests involving algebra, problem solving, and spatial ability” (114). They both clarified that girls are capable of learning math, and there is no excuse for them to avoid these classes. They also proved that girls could always do better than boys in math if they set their mind to …show more content…
They showed that patriarchy was existed in which they would believe that some fields are for men rather than for women. They also assured that women and men should always be equal in gaining their educational rights. Yet, they identified that those girls, when they were young, were the better sex due to their performance in school during their teenage years. Finally, they figured out that the numbers of women in fields that have nothing to do with science or math are high and increasing since men have occupied the other fields such as science and math