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…
The most famous and controversial opinion of why there are more men than women in the STEM field is from Harvard University’s former president, Lawrence Summers. Elizabeth S. Spelke and Ariel D. Grace’s essay “Sex, Math, and Science&#…
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…
Are men “more oriented to objects”, more “gifted” at math and spatial tasks, and more capable of having the better brain for science? These are the questions that Spelke and Grace tackle in their essay Sex, Math and Science. They try to take th…
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In chapter 4 of Why Aren’t More Women in Math and Science, Elizabeth S. Spelke and Ariel D. Grace explore the topics of sex, math, and science and how each contribute to the disparity between men and wom…
by: Nicole Murgia
Elizabeth S. Spelke and Ariel D. Grace further investigate the prejudice women face in the math and science fields in their essay, Sex, Math, and Science. At this point in the knowledge I believe I have obtained from studying the diff…
Chelsea Eareckson
The Puberty Problem
Childhood is a time of laughter, learning, and love. It is also a time of establishing patterns of bias and sexism, according to Elizabeth S. Spelke and Ariel D. Grace. Spelke and Grace work to dispel commonly cite…
In “Sex, Math and Science”, the professors Spelke and Grace have proven that women are influenced by the discrimination in math and science field, which leads to fewer women in science. In fact, this passage uses the similar way in passage one, whi…
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