The Gender Gap Is Taking Us to Unexpected Places

>Male students preferred protecting free speech over an inclusive and diverse society by a decisive 61 to 39. Female students took the opposite position, favoring an inclusive, diverse society over free speech by 64 to 35.

> Boys and men enjoy direct status competition and confrontation, so the central drama of male-culture disciplines is ‘“Hey, Jones says his theory is better than Smith’s; let’s all gather around and watch them fight it out, in a colloquium or in dueling journal articles.” In fact, I’d say that many of the norms and institutions of the Anglo-American university were originally designed to harness male status-seeking and turn it into scholarly progress.

As if free speech and diversity would be in competition. Diversity cannot exist without free speech and would degrade to immense peer pressure.

Working cooperatively is superior in most cases, but you need the ability to speak your mind, especially in tight knit teams. No sense in artificial harmony.