Study of 1.6 million grades shows little gender difference in maths and science at school
- Written by Rose O'Dea, PhD Candidate, Biology, UNSW
Boys and girls perform about the same in STEM at school so why the gender gap later in life?Shutterstock/LightField Studios
There is a stubborn stereotype that maths and science are masculine.
But our study of the school grades of more than 1.6 million students shows that girls and boys perform similarly in science, technology, engineering and...
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