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Once one of my former straight-A student-athletes came back from her first year of college and told me she got a C in one of her intro to engineering courses, but didn't drop the major because she remembered me telling her how statistically that's what girls do but boys don't and
all in the name of trying to keep a "good" GPA; girls are more likely to switch to an easier major and graduate with a higher GPA, but guys are more likely to stick to the major through a "poor" GPA because they want the degree, and
that only adds to the gender divide in the high-paying engineering field. "Resist the urge," I told her, "because those boys will and you're smarter than that. GPAs don't matter in life, but the degree could."
That conversation was one of my shining moments as an educator, a long game payoff, of women educating women. Twenty year old me learned it from Dr. Battle, an extraordinary woman teaching statistics in education, and a decade later it passes through and on to the next generation
and how. Gotta plant those seeds. You never know when they'll take root later on.
