The gender-gap artifact: Women’s underperformance in quantitative domains through the lens of stereotype threat

Gender Differences in Mathematics: An Integrative Psychological Approach

Volumn 9780521826051, Issue , 2004, Pages 172-188

  Davies, Paul G ^a   Spencer, Steven J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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EID: 84923557888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511614446.009     Document Type: Chapter

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