All STEM Fields Are Not Created Equal: People and Things Interests Explain Gender Disparities across STEM Fields
The degree of women’s underrepresentation varies by STEM fields. Women are now overrepresented in social sciences, yet only constitute a fraction of the engineering workforce. In the current study, we investigated the gender differences in interests, and used it to explain the differential distribut...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-02-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00189/full |