This week, we explore what's behind our perception that women are bad at math and science, and why we continue to buy into the myth of the male genius.
Edited by: Neha Shekhawat
Presented by: Anahita Sachdev
Research: Anamika Sudhakar, Dhruvi Chhajer
Produced by: Shrishti Malhotra
Creative Supervisor: Karla Bookman
Sources:
-0.59 to 1.16 -- Hargreaves, Melanie, Matt Homer, and Bronwen Swinnerton. "A comparison of performance and attitudes in mathematics amongst the ‘gifted’. Are boys better at mathematics or do they just think they are?." Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice 15, no. 1 (2008): 19-38.
-1.31 to 1.44 -- Elmore, Kristen C., and Myra Luna-Lucero. "Light bulbs or seeds? How metaphors for ideas influence judgments about genius." Social Psychological and Personality Science 8, no. 2 (2017): 200-208.
Want to learn more about the research in this video? Check out these readings:
-Schiebinger, Londa. "Women in science: historical perspectives." In Women at work: A meeting on the status of women in astronomy, p. 11. 1993
-Gunderson, Elizabeth A., Gerardo Ramirez, Susan C. Levine, and Sian L. Beilock. "The role of parents and teachers in the development of gender-related math attitudes." Sex roles 66, no. 3 (2012): 153-166.
-Montuori, Alfonso, and Ronald E. Purser. "Deconstructing the lone genius myth: Toward a contextual view of creativity." Journal of Humanistic psychology 35, no. 3 (1995): 69-112.
-Hasan, Sema. "Women of the Scientific Revolution: The Forgotten Scholars." (2013).
-Abir-Am, Pnina Geraldine. "Gender and technoscience: A historical perspective." Journal of technology management & innovation 5, no. 1 (2010): 152-165.
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