The underrepresentation of women at the top of math-intensive fields is controversial, with competing claims of biological and sociocultural causation. The authors develop a …
EL Haines, K Deaux, N Lofaro - Psychology of Women …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
During the past 30 years, women's participation in the workforce, in athletics, and in professional education has increased, while men's activities have been more stable. Have …
JS Eccles, MT Wang - International Journal of Behavioral …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing on Eccles' expectancy-value model of achievement-related choices, we examined the personal aptitudes and motivational beliefs at 12th grade that move individuals toward or …
D MacPhee, S Farro, SS Canetto - Analyses of Social Issues …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This longitudinal study examined academic self‐efficacy and performance among Science/Technology/Engineering/Math (STEM) majors who are underrepresented in STEM …
Gender: Psychological Perspectives synthesizes the latest research on gender to help students think critically about the differences between research findings and stereotypes …
B London, G Downey, R Romero-Canyas… - Journal of personality …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Building on prior work on rejection sensitivity, we propose a social-cognitive model of gender-based rejection sensitivity (Gender RS) to account for individual differences in how …
Nearly half of all physicians and biologists are females, as are the majority of new psychologists, veterinarians, and dentists, suggesting that women have achieved equality …
Now available in paperback from psychologist and award-winningcolumnistSusanPinker, the groundbreaking and contro-versial book that is “lively, well-written... important and …
M Wyer, M Barbercheck, D Cookmeyer, H Ozturk… - 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Women, Science, and Technology is an ideal reader for courses in feminist science studies. This third edition fully updates its predecessor with a new introduction and twenty-eight new …