Publication Date:
2015-07-25
Description:
Leslie et al. (Reports, 16 January 2015, p. 262) concluded that "expectations of brilliance" explained the gender makeup of academic disciplines. We reestimated their models after adding measures of disaggregated Graduate Record Examination scores by field. Our results indicated that female representation among Ph.D. recipients is associated with the field's mathematical content and that faculty beliefs about innate ability were irrelevant.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ginther, Donna K -- Kahn, Shulamit -- 1R01AG36820-01/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 AG036820/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 Jul 24;349(6246):391. doi: 10.1126/science.aaa9632. Epub 2015 Jul 23.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Economics, Center for Science, Technology and Economic Policy, Institute for Policy and Social Research, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. dginther@ku.edu. ; Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26206926" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Aptitude
;
*Attitude
;
Female
;
Humans
;
*Intelligence
;
Male
;
Natural Science Disciplines/*manpower
;
*Sexism
;
Social Sciences/*manpower
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
