Episode 55: Sex and Gender Part 2
The Science of Everything Podcast
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Differential Socialisation in Mathematics and Science
In the 1950s only 5% of maths PhDs went to women, whereas now it's closer to 30%. The trends have been moving in the direction of great equality, but we still have a significant inequality. There is evidence that parents' expectations do have an effect on the performance of children. If parents expect girls to perform worse at mathematics then that expectation does go on to affect actual performance and lead to poor performance overall.
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