Everyday Bliss For Women In Leadership

When I was young and wasn’t doing so great in math, my teachers told me "that’s okay, you’re a girl, you’re not expected to do great, just well enough to balance your checkbook." another teacher said "your husband will balance your checkbook, don’t worry about not getting an A in math." They patted my shoulders consolingly and advised my parents to have me tutored in summerschool, but not to worry overly much about it as "of course, she’s a girl, she’s not going to do as well as her male classmates".

You’d think I was a D student, but I wasn’t, I was doing B+ work at that point. But from that moment, so says my mother, I began to do very, very badly at math. And continued to do so as my teachers patted and consoled. Right down into the D range, where I stayed through most of my elementary school education. I managed to pull it up to a C in junior high and high school, but math is never going to be "my subject".

This illustrates what a very POWERFUL influence Beliefs are on performance and perceived ability. NLP, EFT, ZPoint, TAT and any of the energy therapies out there are powerful ways to remove such limiting beliefs. And check out the research that proves how devastating belief can be on other women in the math department:

VANCOUVER (AFP)—New research shows that when women believe they are
genetically bad at math, the belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.

When it comes to mathematics, the divide between men’s and women’s
talents may be due to misinformation more than genetic destiny, new
research in this western Canadian city suggests.

A report published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Science
showed that women exposed to theories saying females are genetically
bad at math performed far worse on math tests than women who had not
been exposed to such beliefs.

So-called "brain sex"–genetic differences between men’s and women’s brains–is a hot new research subject.

It’s so contentious that earlier this
year Lawrence Summers resigned as president of prestigious Harvard
University in the United States amid an uproar after he suggested that
women have less intrinsic ability in math and science than men.

Psychologists Steven Heine and Ilan Dar-Nimrod, co-author of the
Science report, studied how 220 female students performed in math tests
after reading fake research reports–all entirely invented by the
psychologists–with bogus claims about males being better at math.

Read the whole article here: http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/10/how_to_make_women_flunk_math.php

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