POSTMODERN FEMINISM: Oxford University extends time for maths and computer science exams in bid to help women get better grades.

Oxford University has extended time for maths and computer science exams in a bid to help women get better grades.

Undergraduates were given 105 minutes to complete their papers, rather 90.

There was no change in difficulty or the length of questions and female students were said to do better as a result.

Dons trialed the changes to allow women to achieve higher results, with just seven female maths finalists achieving firsts last year compared with 45 men.

The proposals were put forward to reduce the ‘undue effects of time pressure’ which the prestigious university believe effects women more than men, reports the Sunday Times.

The message from Oxford is clear: Women can’t keep up with men in math. The university is also doing its female math students the serious disservice of teaching them that time constraints don’t apply — a notion which the real world will disabuse them of without pity.