Linking Thinking

Why Judy Can’t Add: Gender Inequality and the Math Gap

The math gen­der gap joins a long list of dif­fer­ences in test scores that were once ascribed to biol­ogy, but now appear to be influ­enced by social and cul­tural fac­tors. John Tim­mer sum­ma­rizes a study pub­lished in Sci­ence that sug­gests that the gen­der gap in math scores dis­ap­pears in coun­tries with a more gender-equal cul­ture like Swe­den and Iceland.

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