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aidrocsid  ·  3189 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tim Hunt, Sexism and the Cult of Science

    I do have to say that I very much disagree with your second point, though. There's a lot of research that suggests girls are discouraged from STEM fields from a very young age, starting as early as elementary school.

Can you link to some of this large body of research? I keep hearing it mentioned but I've never actually seen evidence.

    I have a very distinct memory of being told by an elementary school teacher that boys were better at math and that I should be a stay-at-home mom. I don't think it's much of a coincidence that after that, I barely paid attention in science and math classes until I was in high school.

That's certainly not something that should have happened but it's also not necessarily indicative of a larger pattern.

And yeah, Tim Hunt is old and out of touch.