[quote=poorgradstudent][quote=eavesdropper]I’d say that sociological pressures are the more likely reason for the female domination of teaching and nursing. Up until the early 70s, discrimination based on sex was common and absolutely legal…[/quote]
True, although bear in mind that people who were entering the workforce in the early 70s are now in their 60s and rapidly approaching retirement. Obviously there were attitudes that carried down from parents, but no one under 40 today was even alive in 1969 and no one under 50 was past grade school.[/quote]

grad student, I am confused. Can you clarify your response? I’ve read it several times, and I can’t figure out what it has to do with either my post, or your earlier post to which I responded. I am up there in age, so maybe the synaptic junctions aren’t what they used to be.

As for your endorsement of gender-segregated classes, I’m all for it. I’m not up on the most recent literature on improved math scores following gender segregation of classes. But, if there measurable disparity between the learning abilities of children based on gender, I would think that it would make it much easier for the teachers to provide effective instruction if they were teaching classes of pupils with comparable abilities.