Who Can Do STEM?: Children's Gendered Beliefs about STEM and Non-STEM Competence and Learning.
Although boys and girls start out performing similarly on STEM-related school subjects, the gap between them widens as they mature, leading to the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields at the college level and in the workforce. The current study examines the development of children's beliefs a...
| Publicado en: | Sex Roles Vol. 90; no. 8; pp. 1063 - 1075 |
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