STEM/Non-STEM Divide Structures Undergraduate Beliefs About Gender and Talent in Academia

STEM/Non-STEM Divide Structures Undergraduate Beliefs About Gender and Talent in Academia

Research and popular debate on female underrepresentation in academia has focused on STEM fields. But recent work has offered a unifying explanation for gender representation across the STEM/non-STEM divide. This proposed explanation, called the field-specific ability beliefs (FAB) hypothesis, postu...

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Main Authors: Kimberlyn A. Bailey, David Horacek, Steven Worthington, Ampalavanar Nanthakumar, Scott Preston, Carolina C. Ilie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Sociology
Subjects:
gender bias
women in science
underrepresentation of women
talent
STEM/non-STEM divide
gender stereotypes
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00026/full

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