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Is There a Gender Difference in Science Literacy?

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People have argued if what is really happening is that in the absence of inequality pressures, you see women going to more traditionally female stereotypical roles. So I was reading a study published in 2018 that was looking at this to trying to unpack what was going on. What they find is that a lot of women score higher on reading than science. And so even though they're objectively good at science, they're better at reading. It's in countries with less inequality where women are just better able to go with their highest strength.

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