Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
If I hit you with a cattle prod every time you ate pickles for 10 years, then gave you a pickle to eat, it's pretty misleading to say "You didn't like it, I guess WanderingEng just doesn't like pickles". Eccles wrote a long paper, context is important. She is talking about high school aged girls choices after they have already been socialized away from STEM. She discusses those methods of socialization, societal expectations for women, and a ton of other factors before that quote you pulled out. The original article says "Maybe women can do math and science perfectly well but they just don’t like to." Her work says women are actively discouraged from entering STEM careers. Very, very different messages.