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(Ep 117: Heat, Work, Universality and Exams)

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Why Are We So Afraid of Sex Differences in Education?

i have almost nothing but praise for lord hannon of kin claire. As he now is at the moment, being in the house of lords, he's not shy about standing up to the excesses of the left side of politics and the right side of politics. He was correct, for example, to recently pen an article that was titled, why are we so afraid of sex differences in education? The issue is basically that policy makers see it as a problem that boys choose physics more often than girls do, for example. And this way of talking of course feeds into universities. Universities have begun to actively discriminate on the basis of sex or gender when it comes to entrance into some courses.

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