Re: Gender gap persists in Canadian teenagers' writing sk ill

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L] Gender gap persists in Canadian teenagers' writing skill

Joanna writes:
> I have one girl, age 9. What I tell her is the following "You need to get a
> first rate education because chances are that at some time in your life, or
> for most of your life, you will need to support your children without any
> help from any one, and you might even have to support your whole family.
> This was the case for me and for many, many women I know. I
> would say this is more the case for women these days than for men.

that's true. But no-one on pen-l -- and, surprisingly, nothing in the BUSINESS WEEK article -- is denying that US (and Canadian) society as a whole is sexist. One interesting thing is the contrast between the US educational system and the society outside that system. Unless BW's presentation of the facts is totally off?

Jim