My Brain's Secret Life

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The Brain's Secret Life
Nothing can be compared to the complex brain's operational system, not even a supercomputer. This is due to its nature of collecting a lot of information into one bunch in the brain. The brain is able to collect information, process it, and send it to the respective body parts. It stores a lot of information that is normally used in the daily activities of someone's life. People with brain lapse normally are not versatile in daily activities, and they usually mess up because of poor judgment. Brain memory contributes to people having different perceptions of things that they end up believing in specific ideas. For example, many people have different opinions on why the performance of male students is better in math and science than their female counterparts. This perception has been there, and still, people believe the males outdo the females in math and science, with various reasons and their supporting ideas from the several sources that have worked on the same.
There are things people like, depending on the individual. This is because of different feelings towards it. This is the same case in school. When a particular student like a certain subject, the opposite can apply to some. But it can be found out that a particular group of people might tend to like something and be well-positioned. This has been the case in school during my early learning life up to now. Since I was a kid, I noticed the male students performing better in math and science subjects. It was a rarity to hear of a lady lead in a math or science test. In a research done by Ganley, when the students are at a younger age, they tend to perform almost at the same levels, but when they move to high school or elementary schools, a significant difference occurs. Students, during the primary learning life almost have the same performance in math, but when they move to high school, there is a significant difference. The male students tend to outscore the ladies most of the SAT math tests; while they tend to have the same performance on the necessary math tests. In his work, it is found out that despite the male and female of high school and college students having a difference in math performance, there wasn't a big gap. The females had a core average of about 0.1 while the male counterparts had 0.3, bringing up a difference of 0.2. Despite them having the difference, it indicated that this difference came on the technical mathematical part. From this study, there is a clear difference between the two genders with the aspect of age and technicality being involved. It is seen that this perception is clearly seen at a higher age than at a younger age.
Venessa, a psychology professor, did a similar and found out that there is no significant difference between the two genders, and the brains are just almost at the same level. She explains in her work that the difference comes due to the questionable upbringing of these kids. The kids are exposed to stereotyping, which affects them mentally at an early age. When the parents perform their normal responsibility rights, they are biased in one way or the other, which ends up favoring a certain stereotype while harming the other one. She explains that these stereotyping comes at the early stages of their kindergarten, in which the teachers are also involved in stereotyping them. "Indeed, while there are no actual gender differences in how boys and girls perform in math in elementary school, parents generally expect boys to outperform girls, starting when children are in kindergarten and first grade" (Vanesa p1). This is a clear indication that despite having the perception in mind that the boys are better in math and sciences than the ladies, it is something that has been inserted in our minds by our parents and teachers at our early age. When their mothers or fathers give help them in their homework, the parents could insist on the boys not failing in moths than the ladies.
This creates a mentality that males should be the ones scoring more in the technical subjects than the ladies. When the mind of a learning kid takes in this, it's hard to forget. Most probably, the idea of having this perception is due to the fact that the parents are also greatly involved as they do the wrong mental education to their kids. When it is put onto reality by the boys performing better, then it becomes a belief in the young females. Further, Vanessa goes on to explain more that during the young age of six to seven years, the female kids starts to less associate themselves with the games that sharpen their minds. Later, when they realize the boys still dominate them in the best-performing students, they also start to less associate themselves with STEM topics leaving them majorly at adolescence. This shows that the mental treatment they had during kindergarten school life still affected the to the adolescence stage. Therefore, it can be said the mental training by their seniors is a major input to their future perspective on the technical subjects they have to study. To correct this, then the parents need to understand how their input matters on the future of the students. But how can it be corrected?
It is encouraged that the parents having kids should develop strong enthusiasm for math. When the parents have strong enthusiasm for math, the children tend to copy and try to be like their parents. This gradually develops the interest of the kids towards particular subjects. Kids at an early age tend to copy their mentors, so they easily develop a positive mind towards the technical subjects, which later improves their performance. Therefore, the parents should stay away from the stereotypes and have a positive attitude towards the various subjects. The mentality of the males being better in math and science has gone to the extent of having a gender difference in the job market, especially in the jobs that need proficiency in the STEM subjects. In a study done by Aauw, it was found out that there were more male workers in the technical areas of industries and companies than their female counterparts. This shows the adverse effects the technical bias has resulted to the job market. "Girls and women are systematically tracked away from science and math throughout their educations, limiting their training and options to go into these fields as adults" (Aauw, p2). Aauw state that women only make up 28% of the STEM workforce. They say that mostly this is affected by the college level where the ladies are less involved in the STEM units. This has resulted in significantly a high number of men involved in technology than the females. Aauw provides significant factors to this, stating that these factors are less looked at and which ends up affecting the gender gap in science and technology.
The first factor they identify is the gender stereotypes as the STEM field is viewed as a masculine area and needs tough, masculine people, which underestimates the ladies as they are looked upon as weak from the time they start schooling. It is also believed that since the males dominate the stem fields, it has become like a culture like "that's an area for men." This has resulted in very low numbers of females in the computer science and other technologies, which has led to very few role models available for the ladies to get mentorship from. Aauw explains that there has been anxiety that the female teachers grade the young ladies fewer grades, hoping it works in a positive way to encourage females to work harder like their male colleagues. This backfires when the kids become discouraged by the low grades instead of being motivated to work harder. This shows...