19 Quotes by Natasha Walter

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    In the US where the girls are doing not as well as boys in some tests, the information seems to be interpreted as showing that girls just aren’t as good at these things so we can’t expect them to be mathematicians. But here in the UK people are reacting to boys not doing as well as girls in maths exams by saying, what can we do about that, we need to fix that... This difference is telling.

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In the US where the girls are doing not as well as boys in some tests, the information seems to be interpreted as showing that girls just aren’t as good at these things so we can’t expect them to be mathematicians. But here in the UK people are reacting to boys not doing as well as girls in maths exams by saying, what can we do about that, we need to fix that... This difference is telling.

-Natasha Walter

 

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