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Gabrielle Bennetti

Gender Directed Ambition

There is an underlying assumption that reveals the gender bias in society when one asks, “Is the underrepresentation of women in the sciences and math caused by sex differences in cognitive abilities?” Diane Halpern acknowledges that it presumes a …

Self Fulfilling Prophecy

Expectations can become a self fulfilling prophecy, no matter how inaccurate and based in bias they may be, because of how individuals let them affect their outlook. The expectation that women will not be successful in the science field has been built…

Spatial Sex Differences

Although men are shown to have strengths in the spatial domain, the media has blown up the images of ditzy women and men with an innate sense of direction. They amplify the assumptions that sex differences are biological and fixed, but evidence introdu…

Baby Bias

Elizabeth Spelke and Ariel Grace analyze the factors claimed by Harvard University’s president, Lawrence Summers, to account for the underrepresentation of women in the STEM fields in their essay “Sex, Math, and Science.” They provide research to…

Intelligence is Not Wrapped in a Box Under the Christmas Tree

Carol Dweck’s essay “Is Math a Gift? Beliefs That Put Females at Risk” explains the research that suggests the approach to intellectual ability as a gift leaves women vulnerable to discouragement from the challenges of math and science. Dweck’s…