Mathematics

This is a placeholder post for links to research relating to women's mathematical ability:

• "Women's math performance affected by theories on sex differences: UBC researchers"


• "Implicit stereotypes and gender identification may affect female math performance"


• "Stereotype-induced math anxiety undermines girls’ ability to perform in other academic areas"


• "Boys not better than girls at maths, study finds"


• "Tracking the reasons many girls avoid science and math"


• "Culture, not biology, underpins math gender gap"


• "Citizens in 34 countries show implicit bias linking males more than females with science"


• "Trait beliefs that make women vulnerable to math disengagement"


• "Worldwide study finds few gender differences in math abilities"


• "Elementary school women teachers transfer their fear of doing math to girls"


• "'Women worse at math than men' explanation scientifically incorrect, MU researchers say"


• "High school math teachers may not make the grade when it comes to gender bias"


• "Math teachers demonstrate a bias toward white male students"


• "Girls' mathematics performance more likely to suffer than boys' as a result of mathematics anxiety"


• "[A]lmost one in five girls (18.8%) and more than one in 10 boys (11.4%) are deliberately underachieving in maths – to evade bullying."


• "Gender gap disappears in school math competitions, study shows"


• "Female students just as successful as males in math and science, Asian-Americans outperform all"


• "Could playing 'boys' games help girls in science and math?"


• "Do girls really experience more math anxiety?"


• "Watching Another Woman Subjected to Dominant Male Behavior During a Math Interaction Can Induce Stereotype Threat"


• "U.S. Girls Perform Evenly With Boys in Math and Science, PISA Data Show"


• "On the actual PISA math test, though, girls only scored about 2 percent, on average, less than boys did ... So it's clear that around the world, girls are better at math than they think they are."