Math is for girls

About this episode

The episode discusses Janet Hyde's research on gender stereotypes in mathematics and summarizes key findings from various studies.

The story from Janet Hyde about her motivations to get a grant and "fight with data" can be found here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/janet-shibley-hyde-sinks-stereotypes-with-data Cat summarizes a ton of research for this episode. Key citations, most of which contain large literature reviews themselves: Adamecz-Völgyi, A., Jerrim, J., Pingault, J. B., & Shure, N. (2023). Overconfident boys: The gender gap in mathematics self-assessment. Brescoll, V. L., ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Cat Hicks, Ashley Juavinett

Topics covered

• gender gap
• mathematics
• self-assessment
• research
• stereotypes

Keywords

• gender gap
• mathematics
• self-assessment
• research
• stereotypes
• Janet Hyde
• data

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Psychological Science

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