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Do you have a blue brain or a pink brain?

After reading over 8 essays on the underrepresentation of women in the STEM field, I find myself going in circles and visiting similar arguments proposed by various authors. There are authors that think boys are more biologically and cognitively suitab…

Willful Ignorance

In her essay “Sex Differences in Cognition”, Melissa Hines discusses sex differences in cognitive abilities. She claims that the differences are not linked to either organizational or activational effects of hormones and genetic explanations have r…

Think Outside The Box

 
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In chapter 5, Larry Summers’ speech on the unbalanced distribution of two genders in STEM fields is once again mentioned. However, what is different is that Newcombe has an interesting qual…

Lack of Role Models

In chapter four, “Sex, Math and Science”, Spelke and Grace brought up a few “assumptions” that we may have when it comes to the reasons behind the sex differences in the field of math and science. For example, males are more orientated to objec…

It’s All In Our Head

When I first started reading this chapter, the first thing that immediately got my attention is the approach that Dr.Dweck took that is different from that of previous authors. He brings up the idea of how “bright girls don’t cope well with confus…