Actually, a new study finds that this common advice given to college students isn't true.
The grades of new college graduates who are men don't appear to matter much in their job searches, according to a new study. And female graduates may be punished for high levels of academic achievement. The study comes at a time of growing evidence that female students are outperforming their male counterparts academically in college (after also having done so in high school).
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I love sociological experiments because it explains so much about what is wrong with this world, and humans, specifically. I love that a female professor did this study, because it shows just how important this gender gap is in career fields, and she really addresses STEM areas. I am disgusted to hear that men are called back in STEM fields at a ratio of one to three compared to women. It’s almost like we live in a capitalistic society that values men over women, and it really seems like nobody in power cares. It takes something truly riveting to make a change happen apparently, and maybe this study will do that, but a lot of people like to negate numbers which really doesn’t make sense given they’re facts that cannot be denied. Unfortunately, the government we currently have has also not made this a priority to address and correct, and so the problem will continue until a real conversation is started that involves everybody.
I think sociological experiments are great because they can tell you so much. They tend to reveal what isn’t necessarily hidden but goes unnoticed a lot of the time. In other cases, it proves something as does the experiment in this article. It brings to light a very important point and a take on an ongoing problem that I haven’t heard of before. Women are not getting jobs and for stupid reasons, the experiment here shows yet another reason – that women whom are considered likable are the ones who receive jobs. I find this interesting because likeability is associated with average grades and is the cause of hiring. This clearly sends a message of oppression towards women saying that our society wants women to be likeable and not smart. This combination is what quickly leads to taking advantage of people. So, society wants to take advantage of women. All this is revealed from a social experiment and is something we don’t release from just living in this society and definitely not something we would expect to see be based on grades. I like this article but it has one problem. Nothing is cited and nothing is provided. We have no evidence and everything is based on the word of who wrote it. This is an issue for me because that makes it hearsay and I want to see the evidence not only to back up a claim as anyone should do but because it’s the evidence that can lead to change.
This makes me so angry. As someone who had a 4.0 GPA in high school because it was drilled into me to have good grades, I do not understand the reasoning behind the stigma against people with good grades – especially women. It confuses me that employers are supposedly looking for the “best and brightest” but do not want women who fit this criteria. Its been extremely frustrating to me as my sister, who is an accountant, works to make her way up the cooperate ladder. Luckily, she was able to find a great group of people to work with who valued her intelligence but she often speaks of others around her who has been hired. Some of the men in her group are condescending and mediocrely skilled but were still hired while some women that she has met at student recruitment events were rejected because they seemed “uptight” or “ weird.” Its so annoying to me that women seem to have to work so much hard and cultivate so many other sides just to achieve the same success as men.
Well this is very interesting and also incredibly horrifying. The fact that “perceived likeability” is the number one slot in what is important for female job searches is one of the worst things I’ve heard in a long time. The requirements for getting a job should be based on qualification, followed by a whole host of other things, with “perceived likeability” near the end of that list. I really don’t understand why there are so many people out there that are scared of intelligent women. I’ve always been told that if I’m the smartest person in the room, I’m in the wrong room. So I don’t get why people would be scared to hire a woman who is more intelligent than them, because the only thing that will come of it is that they might actually learn something. This practice is unacceptable and should never have existed in the first place.
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