ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Girls Are Better Students but Boys Will be More Successful at Work: Discordance between Academic and Career Gender Stereotypes in Middle Childhood
- Wang Ivy Wong
University of Hong Kong - Wang Ivy Wong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Wang Ivy Wong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Sylvia Yun Shi
The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Sylvia Yun Shi
The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Sui Ping Yeung
University of Hong Kong - Sui Ping Yeung
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Abstract
To understand why girls’ relative school success is not carried over to the workplace, we examined children’s academic and career gender stereotypes. Our findings showed that children, as early as in primary school years, hold the stereotypical belief that girls perform better at school while boys outperform girls at work.
Gender
