{"id":212,"date":"2007-06-15T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T16:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/archives\/2007\/06\/15\/single-gender-groups\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T16:34:10","slug":"single-gender-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/06\/single-gender-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Single-Gender Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dar\u00adren had a post prais\u00ading the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenbarefoot.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/on-the-value-of-single-gender-groups.html\">Single-Gender Groups<\/a>. I find that very prob\u00adlem\u00adat\u00adic, and here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n<p>Dar\u00adren\u2019s main point is that women and men com\u00admu\u00adnic\u00adate dif\u00adfer\u00adently. Per\u00adson\u00adally I\u2019ve found more dif\u00adfer\u00adences in com\u00admu\u00adnic\u00ada\u00adtion style in dif\u00adfer\u00adent coun\u00adtries; I\u2019ve lived in (in chro\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgic\u00adal order, and only count\u00ading places I\u2019ve lived in for more than five years and where I\u2019ve spoken the loc\u00adal lan\u00adguage flu\u00adently) New Zea\u00adl\u00adand, Aus\u00adtralia, Ger\u00admany, and Canada. For example, Ger\u00admans in my exper\u00adi\u00adence are rel\u00adat\u00adively dir\u00adect, both men and women. Cana\u00addians often aren\u2019t. Aus\u00adtrali\u00adans are often also dir\u00adect, New Zeal\u00adanders often aren\u2019t. I tend to be more dir\u00adect than lots of people, which caused a cer\u00adtain num\u00adber of prob\u00adlems for me when I was grow\u00ading&nbsp;up.<\/p>\n<p>One oth\u00ader reas\u00adon I have prob\u00adlems with that atti\u00adtude is due to the fact that I stud\u00adied phys\u00adics at uni\u00adver\u00adsity, and was often the only woman in the room. Obvi\u00adously the few women study\u00ading related sub\u00adjects often became friends, but most of my friends were men. Single-gender clubs would mean that I would\u00adn\u2019t be able to take part in activ\u00adit\u00adies that the rest of my friends could take part in. Obvi\u00adously sports clubs pose a set of issues that often res\u00adult in the segreg\u00ada\u00adtion of those tak\u00ading part, but not for all sports and not neces\u00adsar\u00adily for the social aspects of those&nbsp;clubs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You could say the answer to that is hav\u00ading more women study phys\u00adics or maths, but that\u2019s the answer to a dif\u00adfer\u00adent ques\u00adtion. My ideal is not that there are lots of single-gender groups and every\u00adone finds them ok, but that both men and women can take part in groups where they find the intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal stim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion or enter\u00adtain\u00adment that they are look\u00ading for, not restric\u00adted by people\u2019s expect\u00ada\u00adtions based on their gender, or indeed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenbarefoot.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/want-a-math-genius-dont-name-your-kid-isabella.html\">their name<\/a> (anoth\u00ader one of Dar\u00adren\u2019s posts). There are men who knit, you know, even if not very&nbsp;many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dar\u00adren had a post prais\u00ading the idea of Single-Gender Groups. I find that very prob\u00adlem\u00adat\u00adic, and here\u2019s why. Dar\u00adren\u2019s main point is that women and men com\u00admu\u00adnic\u00adate dif\u00adfer\u00adently. Per\u00adson\u00adally I\u2019ve found more dif\u00adfer\u00adences in com\u00admu\u00adnic\u00ada\u00adtion style in dif\u00adfer\u00adent coun\u00adtries; I\u2019ve lived in (in chro\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgic\u00adal order, and only count\u00ading places I\u2019ve lived in for more than \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/06\/single-gender-groups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cSingle-Gender Groups\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}