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Are girls too good at reading to study math?

Girls have better academic paths than boys, achieving better results at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. However, they are still significantly underrepresented in math-related fields. This situation is a concern since these fields of study lead to the highest-paid jobs in fast-growing sectors, which are... click to read more

Clotilde Napp | Professor at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University, France

Thomas Breda | Associate Professor at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

girls

PISA

gender gap

math

letterature

schools

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Jan 28, 2020

“Who is really, really smart?” Early differences in boys’ and girls’ assumptions about intelligence

Common stereotypes associate brilliance with men more than women. Evidence for this association is everywhere around us, but maybe easiest to detect in portrayals of brilliance and genius on TV and in the movies. The vast majority of characters that are supposed to be brilliant,... click to read more

Lin Bian | PhD student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

behaviour

childhood

stereotype

girls

intelligence

Reading time 3 min

published on Apr 6, 2017