Professor Johnson brought up in class gender differences and how there was a study that showed teachers of younger grades are predominantly women and college professors are predominantly men. Why?
Like many equality feminists argue, "apart from the obvious physical differences, the human sexes are innately very much the same in mental endowment, so that any average differences in performance are due to the different sets of expectations, education, and social role that societies or cultures impose" (Stevenson 220).
We expect women to be caregivers. We expect men to rule politically and economically. It's part of our society, not part of our nature. For example, my second grade teacher, Mr. Frost, was really good at being sympathetic to our 8-year-old needs. Who said a man can't be just as good of a caregiver as a woman? The stereotypes we create aren't true, but they hold us back and make people unconsciously believe that men and women are innately mentally different.
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