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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does excelling academically from a young age actually help girls? No matter how well girls do in school, they run into the same roadblocks in their careers, and the correlation between slightly higher grades and test scores, and professional success, just isn't there.

I mean, if we want to talk about whether boys are less happy than they used to be, or struggling more with executive function, I think that's an interesting conversation. But the fact that boys, on average, lag behind girls in school? I don't think it really impacts them much, and I think the pressure on girls to excel at school can be negative.

I wouldn't say the kids are all right, but I don't lose sleep over the fact that boys are getting slightly lower grades and test scores than girls in K-12. [/quote]

Because excelling academically often means just reciting the same old BS the teacher tells you or memorizing a bunch of facts.  Big whoop.

Women often miss the bigger picture.  They always, allllways want higher powered jobs and leadership positions, but they always want someone else to do all of the hard grunt work of building a business from the ground up.  Sorry, that's not the way the world works.  You can be a straight A student all you want, but the risk takers in the world are going to be far more rewarded with innovation and building companies.   It's really, really hard to be CEO or president of a company of all you do your whole life is go to school, get good grades, and try to climb the corporate ladder.  If you want to be in charge and hold power, you need to be the person who actually builds the company from scratch.  The problem is that women are often way more risk adverse than men.  Numerous studies have shown that to be true in the investment world.  It works well when it comes to investing in the stock market, but far more women than men want to take the risk of putting their life savings and homes on the line to start a company.  And you wonder why later on there are less women in charge?  Take more risk and stop whining.  It's a dog eat dog world.  There's very little reward for being a mindless Yes man or woman who obeys all of the rules doed what they're told in life. At most that might get you to middle management or director level roles, that's about it. [/quote]

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