The Classroom Climate: A Chilly One for Women
...s received a lower evaluation. Women also scored women lower than men. They also found out that we think poorly of women who seem to masculine and males who seem too feminine. “A woman student may have to outperform her male peers to be taken seriously by her professors.” Male students in a primary school are treated better with more information given and more praise than women students. The classrooms also by default have a more masculine setting. Sometimes the way women talk for example using high pitch, or hesitation starts puts them at disadvantages. Women of race, color and age are all affected basically the same ways. We need to teach men professors to be more aware that a climate friendly environment to women will help them succeed and advance in the world. Quotes “A woman must be twice as good to get half as far as a man”. I think this still has quite a bit of truth in it. We still get treated slightly worse than men. It has come a long way but still we are not given the same promotions as our male counterparts. “Older women returnin...