Women fight male superiority

Society gives women consolation prizes rather than real equality. The prizes are good, but still fall short of the whole shebang.

Women earned 56 percent of bachelor's degrees in 1998.

In 1996, women earned the majority of bachelor's degrees in biology, sociology and psychology, with both biology and sociology just over 50 percent, and psychology at 73 percent.

This leaves engineering, math, computer science, physical science, earth science, atmospheric and ocean science degrees in a minority.

In 1996, women earned the majority of bachelor's degrees in health education, literature, art and education.

They were very nearly equal to men in business degrees.

Women earned just shy of 50 percent of all bachelor's business degrees in 1996.

The number of women who received law degrees increased from 33 percent in 1982 to 48.3 percent in 2002.

While 11.7 percent of physicians were women in 1980, 27.8 percent were women in 2006.

In 1972, 3 percent of full professors with degrees in science or engineering were women. In 1998 that number rose to 10 percent.

This shows visible change towards equality, but why the disparity? Perhaps it's because some things are naturally more feminine.

But the evidence does not support this theory.

Elementary school polls of fourth graders show that girls and boys both like science at 66 and 68 percent respectively. By eighth grade, half as many girls are interested in science as boys.

Observations by education researchers prove both parents and teachers steer women away from science and tend to give more attention to boys that are interested than girls.

Another problem is that college courses intended to scrub out students weed out women more than men.

The reason behind this is women are more likely to think of B grades as bad grades and switch majors or drop out, whereas men are more likely to stick with it even if they get a C for the class.

And that's just education.

Think about body and personal perception differences in women and men.

Currently, one in four women of college age have an eating disorder, according to Anorexia Nervosa & Related Eating Disorders, Inc.

Women's magazines feature more than 10 times the number of ads and articles for weight loss than men's magazines.

Nearly 75 percent of women in television comedies are underweight.

Women are steered towards certain careers, which, while successful, fall short of allowing them equality in society.

The media uses body image to manipulate women into thinking about themselves as constantly imperfect and insecure.

Most of all, society teaches boys that they are better than girls and tells girls that boys are better.

I mostly believe this from a lifetime of being a male.

In my life, I have been in places and situations that were all male, a lot of them locker rooms, but some dorm rooms and classrooms.

We are supposed to be better.

"You were beat by a girl" is a genuine insult and motivator for boys of all ages for all situations they are supposed to excel in: sports, academics and witty conversation.

Right now, men can overcome being unattractive in our society by being rich, funny, nice or good at sports.

Women, on the other hand, had better be attractive, because if they are not, none of the things that work for a man will work for them.

More women get a better education than men at the master's degree level, because society has devalued it to men.

Being a doctor is like being a well-trained nurse. Psychology is a useless degree. Poetry and other literature is girly.

I think these are feelings which persist, though there are exceptions everywhere.

That's why I think being encouraged to excel in certain areas is a consolation prize to replace the ability to excel at everything.

The differences in perception of a women and a man and their attractive qualities persists.

The truly frightening thing about women succeeding in certain areas is that men will start to get premiums for going into those fields.

Since they are the minority, men will get more scholarships in female-dominated fields and will compete less, because they will get preferable treatment to women since fewer of them are applying.

Stokely Carmichael said during the Civil Rights Era "(We) are not fighting for equality. We are fighting white supremacy."

The same still applies to everyone not treated equally, but in the case of women, the fight is against male supremacyand not for equality.

Men dominate the fields of science. Male image is better than female image.

Not to mention male wages overbear female wages.

The fights here are against things, not for things.

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