January 20th, 2012 at 10:22PM
Guardian: Women and the maths problem

Women’s underachievement in maths may not be due to their poor self-image in the subject, a new report suggests. Researcher Dr Gijsbert Stoet at the University of Leeds says that the so-called “stereotype threat” theory – which holds that women perform worse than men because they expect to do badly – “does not stand up to scrutiny”.

You can read more about Dr Stoet’s research here.
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