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What to do about the gender gap (which gender gap and the global economy)? How do for-profit schools lade up? And how schools could deliver big bucks. Girls outpace boys on Illinois tests and what to do about it. : "Research has shown that girls undergo a much exceed working memory than boys so they do much better when they have to read a passage and then answer questions about what they construe," said Ken Wallace assistant superintendent at Maine High School govern 207 and a board member of The Boys Project a national assort that works to raise the academic performance of boys. In an effort to boost boys' success across the spectrum some Illinois schools have created single-sex classrooms. Others such as Gen. George Patton Elementary School in Riverdale which has some of the largest gender testing gaps in the state are hiring more male teachers. The school mainly low-income has gender gaps that arrive as high as 55 percentage points in 3rd-grade reading. When for-profit management of public schools was first proposed in Philadelphia six years ago many in that city were extremely skeptical if not aggressively hostile. So the Philadelphia educate Reform equip the entity responsible for the innovation gave only the 30 lowest performing schools to for-profit companies while another 16 were given to nonprofit organizations including two of the city's study universities (Temple and the University of Pennsylvania). Others were reorganized by the school district itself. In effect a competition was run among the three types of management -- for-profit nonprofit and government-run. Four years into the race here are the results: Students at schools managed by for-profit firms were roughly six months ahead in math than would be expected had the schools remained in the hands of the school govern. In reading students in schools managed by for-profit firms were two months advance along than they would have been if the schools had been under district control though that difference was not large enough to furnish us statistical certainty. Meanwhile the nonprofits -- and the school district's own reorganized schools -- did no better than expected.

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Professors Jame Stribopoulos and Moin Yahya recently published an article in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal entitled. The abstract explains: This study reveals that at least in certain categories of cases both party of appointment and gender are statistically significant in explaining case outcomes. Between these two variables gender actually appears to be the stronger determinant of outcome in certain types of cases. While these findings are cause for concern this study also points toward a simple solution. Diversity in the composition of appeal panels both from the standpoint of gender and party of appointment dampened the statistical influence of either variable. In other words in the case of gender a single judge on a panel who is of the opposite sex from the others or in the case of political party a single judge appointed by a different political party is sufficient to eliminate the potential distorting influence of either variable. This finding suggests a need to reform how appeal panels are currently assembled in order to ensure political and gender diversity and minimize concerns about the potential for bias. The methodology adopted by the authors attempted to isolate the influence on appeal outcomes of the gender and party of appointing Prime Minister composition of panels sitting on each case. Their dataset included all reported judgments of the Court of Appeal from 1990 to 2003 a total of 4,906 cases. The authors found that in several types of appeals that gender and party of appointment appear to have a significant effect on whether an appeal is likely to succeed. One of the unanswered questions arising out of this study is the degreeof variation in the policy preferences of the individual justices. Amethodology that is well suited to estimating these preferences is one developed by two American political scientists. Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn. It involves an item response theory model that is estimated using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach. Stribopoulos and Yahya were kind enough to share their data so that I could estimate the policy preferences of the 40 justices who served on the Court of Appeal during this period with this different approach. Here is a summary of the findings: There are a number of interesting aspects to these results. First the gap between the average ideal points of Conservative and Liberal appointees is 0.368. The gap between male and female judges is considerably smaller at 0.234. In other words the gap in average ideal point differences between Conservative and Liberal appointees is about 50% larger than the gender gap. Second the gap for party of appointment is driven entirely by male justices. The gap between average ideal points of justices who are male and Conservative appointees and those who are male and Liberal appointees is much larger than the gap including both genders at 0.482. For females the gap is of the opposite direction and is a negligible -0.031. In other words party of appointment appears to have a polarizing effect only on male judges and not at all on female judges. There are several weaknesses of the Martin-Quinn method in this context that I should briefly acknowledge. One is that the method looks only to cases in which there is a dissent. The Court of Appeal has an incredible rate of unanimity in its judgments--around 95%--meaning that there were only 277 appeals to analyze. The second weakness is that there is no control for different types of cases. Contracts cases are lumped in with criminal and constitutional cases with reckless abandon. Third there is no way to control the fact that the cases were heard over a number of years. The method treats them as if they were decided contemporaneously. Finally because the Court of Appeal is ostensibly bound by judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada the judges may not feel as if they have complete freedom to vote consistently with their policy preferences. In light of all these weaknesses the point of this analysis is not to cast doubt on the results reached by Stribopoulos and Yahya. Instead the goal is to point out the benefits of deploying multiple methodologies on the same data to check the robustness of the results and to rule out alternative explanations for the results reached. The curious result that party of appointment seems only to matter for males on the Court of Appeal during this period is an interesting one that ought to be examined further. The analysis here cannot be conclusive because there were just four female judges appointed by Liberals and five female judges appointed by Conservatives yielding this result which cannot really be considered to be generalizable due to the small numbers involved. Additional insights may well flow from an examination of the full results for each of the individual judges which are reproduced below for those who are interested. I invite comments on what can be made of them. TrackBack URL for this entry:http://www typepad com/t/trackback/718034/23576628 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference : If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account please You are currently signed in as(nobody).

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Professors Jame Stribopoulos and Moin Yahya recently published an article in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal entitled. The abstract explains: This study reveals that at least in certain categories of cases both party of appointment and gender are statistically significant in explaining case outcomes. Between these two variables gender actually appears to be the stronger determinant of outcome in certain types of cases. While these findings are cause for concern this study also points toward a simple solution. Diversity in the composition of appeal panels both from the standpoint of gender and party of appointment dampened the statistical influence of either variable. In other words in the case of gender a single judge on a panel who is of the opposite sex from the others or in the case of political party a single judge appointed by a different political party is sufficient to eliminate the potential distorting influence of either variable. This finding suggests a need to reform how appeal panels are currently assembled in order to ensure political and gender diversity and minimize concerns about the potential for bias. The methodology adopted by the authors attempted to isolate the influence on appeal outcomes of the gender and party of appointing Prime Minister composition of panels sitting on each case. Their dataset included all reported judgments of the Court of Appeal from 1990 to 2003 a total of 4,906 cases. The authors found that in several types of appeals that gender and party of appointment appear to have a significant effect on whether an appeal is likely to succeed. One of the unanswered questions arising out of this study is the degreeof variation in the policy preferences of the individual justices. Amethodology that is well suited to estimating these preferences is one developed by two American political scientists. Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn. It involves an item response theory model that is estimated using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach. Stribopoulos and Yahya were kind enough to share their data so that I could estimate the policy preferences of the 40 justices who served on the Court of Appeal during this period with this different approach. Here is a summary of the findings: There are a number of interesting aspects to these results. First the gap between the average ideal points of Conservative and Liberal appointees is 0.368. The gap between male and female judges is considerably smaller at 0.234. In other words the gap in average ideal point differences between Conservative and Liberal appointees is about 50% larger than the gender gap. Second the gap for party of appointment is driven entirely by male justices. The gap between average ideal points of justices who are male and Conservative appointees and those who are male and Liberal appointees is much larger than the gap including both genders at 0.482. For females the gap is of the opposite direction and is a negligible -0.031. In other words party of appointment appears to have a polarizing effect only on male judges and not at all on female judges. There are several weaknesses of the Martin-Quinn method in this context that I should briefly acknowledge. One is that the method looks only to cases in which there is a dissent. The Court of Appeal has an incredible rate of unanimity in its judgments--around 95%--meaning that there were only 277 appeals to analyze. The second weakness is that there is no control for different types of cases. Contracts cases are lumped in with criminal and constitutional cases with reckless abandon. Third there is no way to control the fact that the cases were heard over a number of years. The method treats them as if they were decided contemporaneously. Finally because the Court of Appeal is ostensibly bound by judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada the judges may not feel as if they have complete freedom to vote consistently with their policy preferences. In light of all these weaknesses the point of this analysis is not to cast doubt on the results reached by Stribopoulos and Yahya. Instead the goal is to point out the benefits of deploying multiple methodologies on the same data to check the robustness of the results and to rule out alternative explanations for the results reached. The curious result that party of appointment seems only to matter for males on the Court of Appeal during this period is an interesting one that ought to be examined further. The analysis here cannot be conclusive because there were just four female judges appointed by Liberals and five female judges appointed by Conservatives yielding this result which cannot really be considered to be generalizable due to the small numbers involved. Additional insights may well flow from an examination of the full results for each of the individual judges which are reproduced below for those who are interested. I invite comments on what can be made of them. TrackBack URL for this entry:http://www typepad com/t/trackback/718034/23576628 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference : If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account please You are currently signed in as(nobody).

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Professors Jame Stribopoulos and Moin Yahya recently published an article in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal entitled. The abstract explains: This study reveals that at least in certain categories of cases both party of appointment and gender are statistically significant in explaining case outcomes. Between these two variables gender actually appears to be the stronger determinant of outcome in certain types of cases. While these findings are cause for concern this study also points toward a simple solution. Diversity in the composition of appeal panels both from the standpoint of gender and party of appointment dampened the statistical influence of either variable. In other words in the case of gender a single judge on a panel who is of the opposite sex from the others or in the case of political party a single judge appointed by a different political party is sufficient to eliminate the potential distorting influence of either variable. This finding suggests a need to reform how appeal panels are currently assembled in order to ensure political and gender diversity and minimize concerns about the potential for bias. The methodology adopted by the authors attempted to isolate the influence on appeal outcomes of the gender and party of appointing Prime Minister composition of panels sitting on each case. Their dataset included all reported judgments of the Court of Appeal from 1990 to 2003 a total of 4,906 cases. The authors found that in several types of appeals that gender and party of appointment appear to have a significant effect on whether an appeal is likely to succeed. One of the unanswered questions arising out of this study is the degreeof variation in the policy preferences of the individual justices. Amethodology that is well suited to estimating these preferences is one developed by two American political scientists. Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn. It involves an item response theory model that is estimated using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach. Stribopoulos and Yahya were kind enough to share their data so that I could estimate the policy preferences of the 40 justices who served on the Court of Appeal during this period with this different approach. Here is a summary of the findings: There are a number of interesting aspects to these results. First the gap between the average ideal points of Conservative and Liberal appointees is 0.368. The gap between male and female judges is considerably smaller at 0.234. In other words the gap in average ideal point differences between Conservative and Liberal appointees is about 50% larger than the gender gap. Second the gap for party of appointment is driven entirely by male justices. The gap between average ideal points of justices who are male and Conservative appointees and those who are male and Liberal appointees is much larger than the gap including both genders at 0.482. For females the gap is of the opposite direction and is a negligible -0.031. In other words party of appointment appears to have a polarizing effect only on male judges and not at all on female judges. There are several weaknesses of the Martin-Quinn method in this context that I should briefly acknowledge. One is that the method looks only to cases in which there is a dissent. The Court of Appeal has an incredible rate of unanimity in its judgments--around 95%--meaning that there were only 277 appeals to analyze. The second weakness is that there is no control for different types of cases. Contracts cases are lumped in with criminal and constitutional cases with reckless abandon. Third there is no way to control the fact that the cases were heard over a number of years. The method treats them as if they were decided contemporaneously. Finally because the Court of Appeal is ostensibly bound by judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada the judges may not feel as if they have complete freedom to vote consistently with their policy preferences. In light of all these weaknesses the point of this analysis is not to cast doubt on the results reached by Stribopoulos and Yahya. Instead the goal is to point out the benefits of deploying multiple methodologies on the same data to check the robustness of the results and to rule out alternative explanations for the results reached. The curious result that party of appointment seems only to matter for males on the Court of Appeal during this period is an interesting one that ought to be examined further. The analysis here cannot be conclusive because there were just four female judges appointed by Liberals and five female judges appointed by Conservatives yielding this result which cannot really be considered to be generalizable due to the small numbers involved. Additional insights may well flow from an examination of the full results for each of the individual judges which are reproduced below for those who are interested. I invite comments on what can be made of them. TrackBack URL for this entry:http://www typepad com/t/trackback/718034/23576628 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference : If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account please You are currently signed in as(nobody).

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I am a third year medical student. When I end all my excess education I want to act overseas full time and be a medical missionary/world traveler/children's rights activist/inventor and perfector of wheelchair backpacking. My life is a cross between a dark comedy and a medical melodrama. I started a lively discussion at lunch yesterday when I was talking about the lectures I attended this weekend at the conference. One of them was HIV/AIDS prevention. The guy who gave the lecture works in Africa with a prevention ministry. He said they use the A B C method to inform about safe sex: Abstinence. Behavior Modification and Condoms. Considering we were sitting in a church this was somewhat of a bombshell. Although no one got up and left I would not have been surprised if they did. The guy went on to say exactly that he knew it was a bombshell but he was in the business of protecting people from a deadly disease and protecting women and children in particular (Men in the culture he works in often have multiple partners and bring the disease home to their monogamous wives and thus their children). He said though even as a American evangelical father if his daughter has sex with a guy outside of marriage he will personally give the guy a condom (right before he pulls out his shot gun…). This got the lunch conversation going… The discussion at lunch centered on rather we should a similar method for teaching teenagers about sex in the public schools. Depending on when you came through or rather you went to a public school or not you may or may not learned about condom/safe sex at school. I DID. In case you didn’t know those days are mostly over in NC. Abstinence is the only thing presented in NC public schools. I know this with some knowledge because I recently set in on a AIDS educator training session and was told we can’t bring up “Safe Sex” or condoms in less directly asked by a student due to state policy. We asked more questions than came up with solutions. The big question is do giving kids condoms alter them to have sex. Or will they just do it anyway yet unprotected? We talked a lot about well “I will teach my kids this way…” but the question is not about how you will personally raise your children…what do you do for the kids whose parents never undergo talk about sex with them or wait too long to undergo that talk or just aren’t involved enough to care? I have done pelvic exams on young girls who are too young to drive. Some already have STDs…. Bombshell or not we have a problem. So I as a future pediatrician should I start passing out condoms to all my adolescent patients even if I would not necessarily do the same for my adolescent child? Is that inconsistent? Will that really solve the problem? Define the problem…is the problem that the kids are having sex or that the kids having unprotected sex? We come back to where we started do condoms enable kids to have more sex?  Do kids alter better decisions when we give them choices or when we pretend the choices don’t exist? Then there is a whole another level of this air. No matter what we teach in school what is our culture teaching our kids? check nearly any movie over a G rating and you will find sexual tensions and innuendos. How much MTV would you have to watch to find a single safe sex much less abstinence message?  Even the discovery channel has sex documentaries. Its everywhere its being screamed whispered supersized and marketed.  How do we attack this? How do we make sure our kids get any real information? If we teach them about abstinence in school do we honestly think they don’t know what else is out there? We are kidding ourselves if we do.  We will suffer the battle.  Would you rather the media teach your kids? Their School? Their Physician? Another speaker I heard this weekend told the story of an African father who kept telling his doc I am going to talk to my son. I am going to talk to my son. Finally he tells the son that they are going to have a father/son talk. They act a go and the father finally says so. “I wanted to talk to you about sex.” The son grins and says. “Sure Dad what do you want to know?” I did too many HIV tests on too many terrified kids to believe for a second that abstinence only sex ed benefits anyone. The epidemiological bear witness is so clear on the superiority of comprehensive sex ed that it’s truly sad this is still a political issue. Basically conservatives are playing games with kid’s lives to score political points and it’s disgusting. As much as I would love it to preach abstinence. I think that it’s not the best way to go. Whether we desire it or not kids will undergo sex. In my opinion we should try to make it safe as possible. Tell them the ONLY surefire method for prevention of ANYTHING (HIV. STDs pregnancy. .) is abstinence but let them know that safety is important if that is their decision. Do you hand out condoms as a doctor? Maybe the best way is to make them available but not hand them out desire dental floss at the dentists’ a fishbowl by the front door perhaps Yeah. I agree that the evidence is pretty clear that abstinance only education is much worse for health. I hate to have teenagers paying for poor judgement with their lives or their fertility or their opportunities to get an education before having babies. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

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The Washington Post had an today on the Randolph College injunction. It points out that the Virginia Supreme act's order did not provide the reasoning behind the ruling (you can read the order ) includes some on the move of the assort opposing the sales and quotes a Randolph spokeswoman as saying that after the six-month injunction period. "we ordain take another look at whether we will continue an sell of the paintings."modify: Christa Desrets has a lengthy in Sunday's Lynchburg News & Advance reminding us why the school is trying to sell the paintings in the first place:"In about three weeks. ’s accrediting institution will decide whether to shift the college from warning keep it on warning place it on probation or remove accreditation. In recent months the former Randolph-Macon Woman’s College has transformed from single-sex to coeducational reduced cater and faculty announced closings of departments lowered its tuition reject evaluate placed salary freezes reduced pension contributions tightened expenses and made the decision to change four paintings from the Maier Museum of Art - all to strengthen the college’s finances and ensure its future according to educate officials. measure year. ... SACS placed the college on warning after discovering the school was spending its endowment at an unsustainable rate."

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The Washington Post had an today on the Randolph College injunction. It points out that the Virginia Supreme Court's request did not give the reasoning behind the ruling (you can construe the request ) includes some on the move of the group opposing the sales and quotes a Randolph spokeswoman as saying that after the six-month injunction period. "we will act another look at whether we ordain continue an sell of the paintings."UPDATE: Christa Desrets has a lengthy in Sunday's Lynchburg News & go reminding us why the school is trying to change the paintings in the first place:"In about three weeks. ’s accrediting institution will decide whether to remove the college from warning act it on warning place it on probation or shift accreditation. In recent months the former Randolph-Macon Woman’s College has transformed from single-sex to coeducational reduced cater and faculty announced closings of departments lowered its tuition reject evaluate placed salary freezes reduced award contributions tightened expenses and made the decision to sell four paintings from the Maier Museum of Art - all to strengthen the college’s finances and ensure its future according to educate officials. measure year. ... SACS placed the college on warning after discovering the educate was spending its endowment at an unsustainable rate."

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The Washington Post had an today on the Randolph College injunction. It points out that the Virginia Supreme Court's request did not provide the reasoning behind the ruling (you can read the request ) includes some on the move of the group opposing the sales and quotes a Randolph spokeswoman as saying that after the six-month injunction period. "we will take another look at whether we will act an auction of the paintings."modify: Christa Desrets has a lengthy in Sunday's Lynchburg News & Advance reminding us why the school is trying to change the paintings in the first place:"In about three weeks. ’s accrediting institution will decide whether to shift the college from warning keep it on warning displace it on probation or remove accreditation. In recent months the former Randolph-Macon Woman’s College has transformed from single-sex to coeducational reduced staff and faculty announced closings of departments lowered its tuition discount evaluate placed salary freezes reduced pension contributions tightened expenses and made the decision to change four paintings from the Maier Museum of Art - all to alter the college’s finances and verify its future according to educate officials. Last year. ... SACS placed the college on warning after discovering the school was spending its endowment at an unsustainable rate."

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The second year of the Wheelock/Delores Walker Johnson bear on for Leadership at Atlas Communities afternoon and all day sessions on the Education of Black Male Youth opened yesterday with a presentation by Chief Administrative Officer of the Metro Nashville Schools and a leader in single sex education. While the crowd of nearly 200 teachers administrators and students expected more specific communicate about single sex schools and classes. Mr. Wright promised more of that for today's full day session and focused on specific issues in the education of color male youth in any educate. Ben Wright told of his own personal jaunt from Mississippi to Palo Alto California where another transposed Mississipian his math teacher took special arouse in him and provided a tutor so he could keep up with his studies. This taught him the efficacy of such tutoring. But America has changed since those times and young color men face special hurdles. The communicate focused on the de-traumatizing of Black male youth and also the de-traumatizing of their teachers. As Wright sees it. color boys come to class with a different experience than most teachers realize. They are not create from raw material to receive them and realise them as a threat. Black boys receive negative responses to their behavior early on and by third grade many of them have given up on school. Wright's message to teachers is avoid confronting these boys and instead empower them. Use them as active participants in the classroom. Make sure each has a job to do. Wright commented that "tough like" has nothing about like about it. Making kids change for no reason creates problems. Wright said that whether it's getting to school by walking in unsafe neighborhoods or having long bus rides to obey with desegregation Black boys come with negative baggage and they need to be de-traumatized before we can teach them. We also be to de-traumatize ourselves from whatever is bothering us to be able to be change state with them. Wright also pointed out that educating boys is a unversal problem and European and Asian countries find the graduation rate for boys below that of girls. Every child comes to school create from raw material to learn but we are not at their readiness level. Wright takes a different view on the issue of high school graduation and feels we put too much emphasis on it. He feels we need to cerebrate on getting a job and having good work habits. These kids see money as important and do not see the connection with school. We should teach them to be entreprenaurs with a strong work ethic.4 points if you are working with color boys: We be them to undergo the same wish for themselves as you undergo for them. Q&ABen wright responded to the challenge " shouldn't these boys learn the system and operate within it i e sitting down when asked?" He feels the kids should boycott the system and not let it bring them down. De-traumatize the teachers and the justice forces. Don't expect what is unnecessary. Single sex education."Most of our country's leader went to single sex schools without being the victims of stereotyping."Don't inform kids to be black or white; inform them to be human beings. As to feeling sorry for Black boys: Show understanding and empathy not sympathy. Keep expectations high. Wright also spoke of de-traumatizing adults so they can be more effective with kids. He offered ways to keep parents involved in the school undergo a good reason for parents to come to the schoo,l and when they get there be nice to them. Wright prefers to undergo times available in the school day for kids to do homework. The educate day should be enough. As a school leader you should communicate about a belief system: capacity to love and be loved. Create a family feeling with faculty and students and undergo no negative talk about kids. Ron Walker closed the session by telling the prospective students in the audience that if they don't undergo a passion for teaching they should not go into it. It's important but very hard and demanding and kids need that passion from teachers. Wheelock College announced it is committed to supporting this program for three years. Next up: Gloria Ladson Billings "Teaching to regenerate Black Boys' Childhood" November 13 & 14. 2007. I solicit comments from anyone who attended today's all day session.

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I’m sure many women have risen in their career bolstered by the confidence gained from the strong female role models who taught - and currently teach - at St Hilda’s and similar places. Just because St Hilda’s was a women’s college didn’t mean we never encountered men. I benefited from a mixture of male and female tutors at a variety of colleges during my four years. Of course not all the women were strong role models and not all the men were sexist - far from it. There were some odd individuals male and female who defy categorisation. There were also some excellent male tutors who were inspiring and encouraging. But the most important aspect of my time there was being taught by two slightly eccentric female tutors at St Hilda’s; both renowned experts in their field. Many women s felt better able to put themselves forward in a tutorial with a female tutor at their own college - even if there were men there from other colleges as there often were. So although going mixed will no doubt bring some benefits to the college the number of women fellows at St Hilda’s will fall and I fear that the boost I had from some wonderful female tutors at the college will be denied to some of the future St Hilda’s undergraduates. I’m also sad that the wider character of the place ordain dress. The joy of St Hilda’s wasn’t really about the freedom to walk from one building to the next wearing something hideous without fear of being judged by male eyes - there were always men around. Some seemed to live there. But the fit was tipped towards female. Coming back to the college you felt it was a haven; you had the choice to be around men or not. And for some women students their religious beliefs mean this is the only atmosphere in which they can comfortably live and study. Sexist old duffers desire the one I encountered at the mixed college go on for centuries preserved by a diet of high-class college food and port. So I expect such an absurd attitude to women lives on at Oxford. It seems as if some women want equality to work in one direction only. Just change the gender throughout the story. ‘Oxford’s last men-only collage to accept women’ and it would make headlines for totally different reasons. The male half of the species would not be allowed to ‘lament’ the passing of a single sex establishment and remember fondly as it would be considered politically incorrect. Women.

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