Smithsonian Magazine: Women remain underrepresented in the sciences, but why? One team publishing in Psychological Science claims that it’s simply because women have more career choices these days. To arrive at this conclusion, the researchers examined national survey data from 1,490 students, both male and female, bound for college. The partipants More
BuzzFeed: The argument that women are underrepresented in math and science careers because they’re just not as good at math refuses to die, but a new study proposes an alternate explanation: women may be leaving these fields in greater numbers because they’re more likely to be good at other things. More
LiveScience: Having skills suited for a variety of careers helps explain why few women pursue math and science jobs, new research finds. A study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Michigan revealed that women may be less likely to want careers in science, technology, engineering More
Science: Researchers seeking to explain why women are less likely than men to pursue STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) careers long focused on females’ purported inferior mathematical prowess. But new research suggests a very different explanation: women’s superior abilities in other areas. In “Not Lack of Ability but More More
Women may be less likely to pursue careers in science and math because they have more career choices, not because they have less ability, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Although the gender gap in mathematics has narrowed in More
Although promising future athletes and musicians tend to be identified and actively supported from an early age in the United States, the same intense support is not always provided to children who display academic promise, thus hurting the ability of our most talented individuals to compete in the global economy. More
