{"id":112,"date":"2005-10-17T20:11:03","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T01:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2005-10-18T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T17:56:35","slug":"no-boys-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/no-boys-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"No Boys Allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/noboysallowed.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The feature story on my university&#8217;s home page today is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/features\/2005\/friendship\/index.html\">No Boys Allowed:  Friendships among high school girls can promote academic success<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hard to resist reading further!  My initial reaction &#8220;No Boys?  No Way!&#8221;  But being quite fond of listening to different points of view, I tossed aside my initial reaction and began reading the article with a critical eye.<\/p>\n<p>With math and science test scores narrowing between the genders, the mystery remains as to why girls pursue majors in math and science less frequently than boys.  The research of Muller, Riegle-Crumb and Farcas shows a correlation between girls choosing to pursue math and science and positive female role models and friendships.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153For girls, female friends with higher grades function as role models who do well in the subject, set norms about working hard, establish a competitive but friendly environment, offer emotional support to surmount the difficulties of pursuing advanced courses and counteract any discouragement they might face.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>So, techno girlfriends, does this ring true to you?   How did you end up in the male dominated field of information technology?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/noboys.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The feature story on my university&#8217;s home page today is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No Boys Allowed:  Friendships among high school girls can promote academic success<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hard to resist reading further!  My initial reaction &#8220;No Boys?  No Way!&#8221;  But being quite fond of listening to different points of view, I tossed aside my initial reaction and began reading the article with a critical eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}