Sexism - Another Thing To Blame Your Mother For
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 09:40
in Psychology & Sociology
In claims about math performance among females, and the sociological implication that unknown cultural pressure in schools made the mentally malleable fairer sex believe they couldn't do math even if they could, there was always one inconvenient truth - in America, over 70% of teachers are women, so if there was sexism women were doing it.A study at the University of the Basque Country finds a more pervasive link between the sexist attitudes of mothers and that of children - and gender and the family's socio-economic and cultural level to sexism. Mothers teach more gender than discrimination than fathers. read more