Petra Jelenec

Girls and the Leaky Math Pipeline

Implicit Math-Gender Stereotypes and Math Withdrawalin Female Adolescents and Women

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Women are still underrepresented in math-intensivefields like computer science or engineering.Math-gender stereotypes have been identified todiminish both math performance and math interest inwomen. Petra Jelenec investigated implicitmath-gender stereotypes in children and adolescentswith Implicit Association Tests (IATs) and Go/No-GoAssociation Tasks (GNATs). In a large German sample,implicit math-gender stereotypes could be detectedpredominantly in girls. Girls at the age of 9 yearsalready revealed implicit math-gender stereotypes,and for adolescent girls, those implicit stereotypeswere related to academic outcome variables likeability self-concepts and school grades in math andGerman. Further, implicit math-gender stereotypesturned out to be context-dependent. Female universitystudents showed a stronger implicit math-male biasafter completing a difficult math test that wasdescribed in a stereotypical manner. This book isintended for readers interested in implicit socialcognition and stereotype research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 168g
• ISBN-13: 9783639082654
• ISBN-10: 3639082656
• Artikelnr.: 25045077

Autorenporträt

Petra Jelenec studied psychology at the University of Trier(Germany) and finished her doctoral dissertation at theUniversity of Jena (Germany). She works as a researcher andinstructor at the Department of Social Cognition and CognitivePsychology at the University of Jena. Her research focuses ongender stereotypes and stereotype threat.