Do 10-Year Old Children Stereotype Males As More Intellectually Brilliant Than Females? Testing the Early-Reversal Model of Own- Versus Opposite-Gender Sex Stereotyping.

This study tested whether a stereotype that males are more brilliant than females emerges in primary school and whether females are stereotyped by having lower ability than males. We found children are more likely to associate brilliance with their own gender and females are not stereotyped by having low ability.