To what extent science rather satisfies the expectations of power structures?

Question

than it contributes to humanity and personal well-being?
I have seen here many questions relying on "scientific" proofs ow "women's inferiority" so I wonder, to whom do those proofs can serve?

Answer 1

Cultural expectations influence a great deal of behavior. In the United States some say women are inferior in math and science. Teachers subconsciously expect less of girls. So they teach less to girls. In Russia, most of the scientists and mathematicians are women. Ain't that a chink in the inferiority debate!

Answer 2

I've not seen nor heard of any studies that assert women are inferior. The ones I know about just say women are different in many ways from men. The most interesting is how our brains differ and how we process information differently.

What I suspect you are "fishing" for is why do men keep women down. The answer is, some men don't think a woman can or should compete with a man. Our specie still has a 50,000 year old brain from when the labor tasks of men and women were markedly different. Men hunted, women gathered. To this day, many men feel that a woman doesn't belong in the fields that men have chosen despite the fact that the physiological reason behind the gender based division has disappeared.

Answer 3

The the so-called scientific proofs invariably serve the ones funding the studies.

They are often little more that a way of twisting reality to support the agenda of the group that funds the studies.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 4

with true science there is no power structure only exploration of all things brought to a understandable level for all to understand and validate it's findings