Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines

Science

Volumn 347, Issue 6219, 2015, Pages 262-265

  Leslie, Sarah Jane ^a   Cimpian, Andrei ^b   Meyer, Meredith ^c   Freeland, Edward ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; GENDER DISPARITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHILOSOPHY; STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOR;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; GRADUATE STUDENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEREOTYPY; ACHIEVEMENT; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; INTELLIGENCE; MANPOWER; NATURAL SCIENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXISM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIOLOGY; STEREOTYPING; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ACHIEVEMENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; APTITUDE; ATTITUDE; CAREER CHOICE; CULTURE; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; FACULTY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NATURAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXISM; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STEREOTYPING; STUDENTS; WOMEN;

EID: 84922480048     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1261375     Document Type: Article

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