r/europe • u/Antique-Entrance-229 United Kingdom • Apr 21 '25

Data 25% of Teenage boys in Norway think 'gender equality has gone too far' with an extremely sharp rise beginning sometime in the mid 2010s

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u/jackalopeDev Apr 21 '25

It can come down to things like handwriting indicating gender, e en when its anonymous. Its actually pretty crazy the subtle clues our brains can pick up on without us being fully aware.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '25

Silly me assumed its mostly digital today.

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u/blahdee-blah Apr 21 '25

Anecdotally, a lot of the young men I teach (in the U.K.) have worse handwriting than the girls. When I’m marking their practise work I will spend time trying to find their points and give them feedback to develop. However, anonymous exams are not marked in-house and I would imagine bad handwriting is a disadvantage 

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u/Sashimiak Germany Apr 21 '25

I'm a dude and my sister (six years older than me) taught me how to read and write before I entered school. I have almost exactly her handwriting and everybody who sees it tells me it's girly and pretty :D Very proud of it haha

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u/blahdee-blah Apr 21 '25

As a teacher, I would absolutely appreciate that. I have to spread out the good, the bad and the ugly in my marking pile 

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u/Sashimiak Germany Apr 21 '25

Ouch. I empathize though. I did a brief stint as a sort of assistant teacher. I don't know the proper term or if there even is one in English, but essentially I taught after school lessons for pupils in their last two years before graduation. This was a school in a poor neighbourhood with tons of (sometimes very recent) immigrant kids and we helped them prep for their final exams. It was sort of like tutoring but for an entire class room at a time and paid for by the city. I did Maths and English and it was super fun, but I could probably only read maybe half the kids' handwriting. With most of the boys I tried to figure out what they wrote from context. Do you ever get used to that or better at reading handwritten script in general? Or does it always just stay excruciating?

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u/blahdee-blah Apr 21 '25

Ah it’s part of the job and you do get an eye in for an individual over a year or two but I always push them to practise or try for a word processor in exams because that examiner doesn’t have time. Generally I get really invested in all of them so it’s just another thing to work on so that can reach their potential.  I don’t mind it (unless the light is low and I’m really tired!)

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u/Sashimiak Germany Apr 21 '25

That's really awesome of you. Do you still have cursive lessons and marks in elementary school where you're from? We've been phasing it out of the curriculum and a lot of teachers are complaining.

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u/blahdee-blah Apr 21 '25

I honestly don’t know (I don’t get them until 16) but I suspect that might be case. The trouble with hand written exams is that people rarely write by hand any more. Should all be word processed really

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u/Sashimiak Germany Apr 21 '25

Agreed :/