Men are brilliant, women are not? Gender stereotypes undermine girls' prospects in brilliance-oriented fields

• Main Author: Zhao, Siqi
• Other Authors: Setoh Pei Pei
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159447
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Women are vastly underrepresented in fields that emphasize the quality of brilliance, such as science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). This thesis seeks to explain the origins of female underrepresentation in brilliance-oriented fields using the Field-specific Ability Beliefs (FAB) model (...