@Enzyme - not quite my point
though I didn't make it quite as clearly as I could have.

My fundamental argument is that the way we are raised affects our later lives (duh, obvious point CHCB), but that people seem to accept things like "maths is a man's job", "women don't have a natural aptitude for science", or "there are more men doing engineering because they're instinctively better at it", without stopping to think that maybe, just maybe, it's because they've unquestioningly accepted that when society told them so without ever seeing any hard evidence.

Edit: and I don't count Horizon as decent science.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 24 Apr 2008, 11:04, Reply)