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Kurt Gödel Society; Mathematical Council of the Americas (MCofA) [1] Mathematical Optimization Society; Mathematical Society of South Eastern Europe (MASSEE) [2] Quaternion Society; Ramanujan Mathematical Society; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Southeast Asian Mathematical Society (SEAMS) [3] Spectra (mathematical association)
Gaps in bold font mean that the gender gap is statistically significant (p<0.05). A positive mathematics gap means that boys outperform girls, while a negative mathematics gap means that girls outperform boys. A positive reading gap means that girls outperform boys (this is true in every country, so no country has a negative reading gap).
In response to reader response that questioned her analysis vos Savant conducted a survey of readers with exactly two children, at least one of which is a boy. Of 17,946 responses, 35.9% reported two boys. [9] Vos Savant's articles were discussed by Carlton and Stansfield [9] in a 2005 article in The American Statistician. The authors do not ...
Gender stereotypes and expectations may have an influence on the underrepresentation of women within technology and ICT focused programs and careers. [100] [101] Females are also underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at all levels of society. Fewer females are completing STEM school subjects, graduating ...
Hidden curriculum is the idea that race, class, and gender have an influence on the lessons that are taught in schools. [53] Moreover, it is the idea that certain values and norms are instilled through curriculum. For example, U.S. history often emphasizes the significant roles that white males played in the development of the country.
Western culture creates cultural gender roles based on the meanings of gender and cultural practices. Western culture has clear distinctions among sex and gender, where sex is the biological differences and gender is the social construction. However, sex still influences how society perceives a certain gender. [9]
Gender is used as a means of describing the distinction between the biological sex and socialized aspects of femininity and masculinity. [9] According to West and Zimmerman, gender is not a personal trait; it is "an emergent feature of social situations: both as an outcome of and a rationale for various social arrangements, and as a means of legitimating one of the most fundamental divisions ...
Gender systems are the social structures that establish the number of genders and their associated gender roles in every society. A gender role is "everything that a person says and does to indicate to others or to the self the degree that one is either male, female, or androgynous. This includes but is not limited to sexual and erotic arousal ...