Gender-Role Differences in Spatial Ability: A Meta-Analytic Review.
Although gender-related differences in highly gender typed cognitive abilities are of considerable interest to educators and cognitive researchers alike, relatively little progress has been made in understanding the psychological processes that lead to them. Nash (1979) proposed a gender-role mediat...
| Published in: | Sex Roles Vol. 68; no. 9-10; pp. 521 - 536 |
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Springer Nature
May2013
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