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Det finns tydligen fler egenskaper som är kopplade specifikt till könet. Polyglotter är starkt överrepresenterade bland män. Hur mycket man än kompenserar för sociala faktorer finns en uppenbar skillnad kvar. Det ger ju stöd för att även matte av den högre skolan mycket väl kan vara en "manlig" egenskap.
Det finns inget stöd för att män skulle besitta en speciell matematik- eller språkgen som inte finns hos kvinnor. Varken matematik eller språk är specifikt ”manliga” egenskaper.
Kvinnor har i snitt bättre verbal förmåga än män. Till exempel den geniala polyglotten Anna Maria van Schurman som kunde tala 14 språk:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-bilingual/201712/are-there-any-female-polyglots
”… but the fact that for most of human history, women have been (and in some places still are) excluded from formal education and public life. In the past, only the highest born women were tutored similarly to their male peers and it is no surprise that the best-known female multilinguals are royalty, among them Cleopatra VII, Queen Emma (wife of Cnut the Great), Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Christina of Sweden and Empress Catherine the Great.
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In the 17th century there existed a small pan-European community of learned women in France, England, Germany, Denmark, and Netherlands, all of whom had mastery of numerous languages, and corresponded in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, and French. At the heart of this women’s Republic of Letters was an extraordinary woman all of the others looked up to – the illustrious femme savante of Utrecht, Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678.)
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… learned to read the Bible by the age of three. At seven she began learning French and at eleven she listened in on her older brothers’ Latin lessons and volunteered correct answers before they did. Girls, at the time, were largely excluded from Latin learning but Anna Maria’s open-minded father decided to instruct his daughter in Latin and Greek in addition to French. By the age of 14, she penned poised verses and eloquent letters in Latin and corresponded with prominent poets and scholars...
… in addition to Dutch, she also composed poems in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, and French.
… The secret of her success in fourteen tongues (Dutch, German, French, Latin, Greek, English, Italian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Syrian, Samaritan, Persian, and Ethiopian) was neither magic nor gender but the combination of time, resources, tireless practice, dedication and unique receptiveness among the male professoriate of Utrecht University.
The idea that gender affects second language learning directly is one of the oldest chestnuts in the field, followed closely by the notion that the best language learners are musicians (see here). Decades of research attempting to link language learning success with gender or musical skills have always hit a brick wall. Whenever men – or women – are more successful as a group, the reasons are social, not psychological. And as to polyglots, the historic ones are still predominantly male – until we rediscover more women like Anna Maria van Schurman.”
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In the 17th century there existed a small pan-European community of learned women in France, England, Germany, Denmark, and Netherlands, all of whom had mastery of numerous languages, and corresponded in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, and French. At the heart of this women’s Republic of Letters was an extraordinary woman all of the others looked up to – the illustrious femme savante of Utrecht, Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678.)
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… learned to read the Bible by the age of three. At seven she began learning French and at eleven she listened in on her older brothers’ Latin lessons and volunteered correct answers before they did. Girls, at the time, were largely excluded from Latin learning but Anna Maria’s open-minded father decided to instruct his daughter in Latin and Greek in addition to French. By the age of 14, she penned poised verses and eloquent letters in Latin and corresponded with prominent poets and scholars...
… in addition to Dutch, she also composed poems in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, and French.
… The secret of her success in fourteen tongues (Dutch, German, French, Latin, Greek, English, Italian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Syrian, Samaritan, Persian, and Ethiopian) was neither magic nor gender but the combination of time, resources, tireless practice, dedication and unique receptiveness among the male professoriate of Utrecht University.
The idea that gender affects second language learning directly is one of the oldest chestnuts in the field, followed closely by the notion that the best language learners are musicians (see here). Decades of research attempting to link language learning success with gender or musical skills have always hit a brick wall. Whenever men – or women – are more successful as a group, the reasons are social, not psychological. And as to polyglots, the historic ones are still predominantly male – until we rediscover more women like Anna Maria van Schurman.”
En rysk 4 år gammal flicka som talar sju språk. Undrar hur många språk till hon hinner lära sig innan hon uppnår vuxen ålder. En framtida hyperpolyglott.
Min mor var också ett språkgeni. Följande 6 språk inklusive svenska behärskade hon till fullkomlighet : tyska, engelska, franska, spanska och italienska som hon kunde tala flytande.
I historien var kvinnor (och är fortfarande på en del ställen i världen) uteslutna från utbildning och det offentliga livet (näringsliv, kyrkan, vetenskap, politik). Kvinnor fick inte utbilda sig i samma utsträckning som män, fick varken äga eller förvalta egendom, förbjöds att engagera sig politiskt, fick inte bli präster och så vidare. De fick inte heller upptäcka, uppfinna, forska, skriva poesi eller komponera musik. Det fanns förresten varken tid eller ork över för sådana intellektuellt stimulerande aktiviteter när kvinnornas uppgift var att föda massor av barn, uppfostra dem, ägna sig åt husliga sysslor och serva sina män. Förr var det endast välbeställda kvinnor som fick samma tillgång till högre studier som män och därmed fick möjlighet att utveckla sin fullständiga genetiska potential inom språk, matematik och andra områden.
Särskilt inom tech-industrin och andra manliga domäner.