Concept
Conclusion and Reflection
- social costs is an explanatory factor when looking at gender academic achievement gaps
- implications: focusing on peer norms surrounding academic effort and seeking to change them may help mitigate gender achievement gaps
- limitations: not causal, applied to one culture, one academic domain (STEM), limited to high school level
- STEM is a more stereotypically masculine domain. How would social costs look in other, less stereotypically masculine domains?
- Women are underrepresented in STEM fields and subject to stereotype threat due to stereotypes of underperformance. The findings of this study are somewhat in opposition to this. How do social costs intersect with opposing stereotypes of female underperformance to produce the trends we see in female and male STEM performance?
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Updated 2020-12-27
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