Duh. People who make history are unusually good or unusually bad. And that is people. Gender ain’t got nuttin to do with it.
As with many things in gender studies, men and women tend to have the same mean, with men having greater standard deviation. Thus more men at the tails of the bell curve. More men at the 99.5 percentile than women, or the 0.5 percentile. Traditionally more male geniuses and more men in mental institutes.
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Duh. People who make history are unusually good or unusually bad. And that is people. Gender ain’t got nuttin to do with it.
As with many things in gender studies, men and women tend to have the same mean, with men having greater standard deviation. Thus more men at the tails of the bell curve. More men at the 99.5 percentile than women, or the 0.5 percentile. Traditionally more male geniuses and more men in mental institutes.
Who needs to “make” history when “the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world”?
Does she mean people like Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton?
Margaret Thatcher?
Mother Theresa?
Come on, Professor, what’s the point of this posting today?
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