Blog Ten
Reading Summers’ article I realized and understand why he would believe that women would not have the time to go further into their education in the science and math. However, it is only one of the possible reasons of why women tend not to finish or go further into their education under these subjects as Bublick has pointed out. She argues that it could also be the motivation to go into these subjects and to go further. She had pointed out how education could also play in the part of school swaying the subject of science and math towards the boys and not really the girls. Sterling also points that parents also did the same thing; “among the precocious students the boys owned more books and equipment related to math and science, while some of the girls’ parents were so uninterested in their daughters’ precocity that they didn’t even plan to send them to college.�
So what do these things tells us. It tells us that the reason for there being so little of women representatives in the math and science area is because of motivation. It is not because they do not want to work an eighty hour shift as Summers believe it to be and it is not because women are not as great in math and science as the boys are. Also it is not only because they are mothers. Summers had based his belief or his guesses, as he calls them, on unreliable statistics. It did not fully explain why there were not a lot of women in the science and math studies. It only tells us the difference of men and women. If Summers had actually done surveys and research on why women did not complete or did not go into math he could have had a better reason as to why many women did not study science and math. For an example he could give a list of reasons that women may not have taken these subjects as their major. If his research show that the most reason to why women did not take science and math as a major was because of his guesses then he would be right. However, because many women are offended it means otherwise. So if Summers only had done research and had actually looked for the truth instead of guessing then he could do what he said he wanted to do and that was to promote more women into the area of science and math. He would have found a solution with that research. He would have realized that motivation was one of the reason why women may not have gone into science and math majors.