http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45646131/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/gender-math-gap-cultural-not-biological/#.U-l1XvRDtKI (NBC) Basically the article talks about how women actually have a predisposition and interest towards math, but were prevented from it by the "patriarchy". Basically, they argue that math gap between men and women is not biological, but cultural. NBC thinks that the most feminist countries have women better at math, because they are given the chance to be better at math due to feminist culture.

I disagree, I think that women mostly are not interested in math because they are not predisposed for it.

The new research points to culture as the culprit, finding that certain countries showed less of a gap between males and females in math. Specifically, these female-math friendly countries have more gender equality, better teachers and fewer students living in poverty. In many countries, there isn't a gender gap in mathematics performance, the researchers said.

That excerpt is from the NBC article. Anyways in these female math friendly countries/ western countries (i.e. USA and Britain), the math taught in the curriculum is comparatively easier than the math in the non-female friendly math countries. The fact that some countries have a larger gender gap in math isn't due to the culture inhibiting women from going after math, but because most women not wanting to pursue something in math because of the harder math curriculum of non feminist East Asian countries. The boys continue to pursue math in these harder math curriculums because they do understand the harder maths at a younger age, unlike the girls. For example, in India, my cousins (the male ones) learned advanced calculus in the 11th grade. Since specialization was already inferred in Asian high schools (kids already know what they are going to major in in college and take courses according to that), most of the girls do not take majors that were heavy on mathematics, not because they are discouraged, but rather because they complain its just too hard. Asian parents don't care if you are a boy or a girl, they don't give encouragement to their sons or daughters, but rather insult sons and daughters in an attempt to make them try harder. Advanced calculus in the 11th grade is part of the regular coursework for an 11th grader who is going into engineering/mathematics/or computer science fields in most Asian countries. Also, most Asian countries are not friendly toward female participation in math. Its not encouraged, but neither is it discouraged.

Now take the USA on the other hand. Calculus 2 is considered a college level course, and only the advanced AP students could take calculus in high school. I took AP Calculus 2 as an 11th grader, and every single kid in our class was a male.

I fucking aced the SAT and ACT Maths because the math there was stuff I did in middle school, since I was in the super advanced math curriculum. Unfortunately the girls and boys who were in the regular and one-up advanced courses had just started seeing those kinds of math problems in the 10th grade and 9th grade. My cousins in India thought the SAT was a joke, and the college entrance exams (for engineering and computer science) there have AP Calculus and Linear Algebra on them.

So my reason why the math gender gap is almost nonexistent in female math-friendly countries when compared to other countries is because the math curriculum is significantly easier by 2-3 grade levels than those of their non-female math friendly country counterparts. Thus, the gender gap is due to the difficulty of math taught in these non female math countries.

The data from 86 countries, including the U.S., Belgium, England, Hong Kong and New Zealand, show greater variability in male math talent only in some cultures, for example, Taiwan.

Those cultures had the more difficult math curricula.

"We found that boys — as well as girls — tend to do better in math when raised in countries where females have better equality," Kane said. "It makes sense that when women are well-educated and earn a good income, the math scores of their children of both genders benefit."

Boys and girls tend to do better in math when raised in countries where females have better equality. But not because their mothers are supposedly great at math. Its because the math curriculum is easier than that of an Asian non- female math friendly country.

The people in the hardest math courses/ curriculum are mostly men. What does that tell you about biology, males, and math? That men have the best mathematicians, and women have the most average.

Thus, it shows that the best mathematicians are male. Which shows that males are more predisposed in math.

I'm done. Discuss.