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Instead of further probing the question as to why female undergraduates tend not to be elected to head political organizations, women have formed and flocked to new campus organizations such as the Women’s Leadership Network, the Women’s Leadership Project, the Conservative Women’s Caucus, and the Seneca. These organizations guarantee leadership experience and executive roles for undergraduate women without forcing them to face the biases against female leaders. Moreover, they offer female undergraduates same-gendered mentors and with venues to present and educate the campus on women’s issues...
...reviews tend to exhibit a kind of ‘boys club’ behavior,” Feather said. “The boys club atmosphere is apparent often enough to be familiar and discouraging...
...EXPLAIN WHY, IN STUDY after study, boys and men are still on average better at rotating 3-D objects in their minds? As for girls and women, how do we explain why they tend to have better verbal skills and social sensitivities...
...explain why, in an experiment in England four years ago, newborn boys were much more likely than girls to stare at a mobile turning above their cribs. It may also help explain why boys prefer to play with moving toys like trucks while girls favor richly textured dolls and tend to draw with a wider range of colors, Sax says...
Until then, one solution to overcoming biological tendencies is to consciously override them, to say to yourself, "O.K., I may have a hard time with this task, but I'm going to will myself to conquer it." Some experiments show that baby girls, when faced with failure, tend to give up and cry relatively quickly, while baby boys get angry and persist, says Witelson at Ontario's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University. "What we don't know is whether that pattern persists into adulthood," she says. But in her experience in academia, she says she knows...