Gender Differences in Personality and Interests: When, Where, and Why?

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Gender Differences in Personality across the Ten Aspects of the Big Five (2011, background): “Most meta-analyses and reviews examine gender differences in self-reports of personality on questionnaires that measure the Big Five, as well as facets within each (Feingold, 1994; Costa et al., 2001; Lippa, 2010).”
Why Are Some STEM Fields More Gender Balanced Than Others? (2017, background): “Women’s preferences for people versus men’s preferences for things is a large effect ( d $ 1.18 in Lippa, 2010; d $ .93 in Su et al., 2009) that has been cited to explain gender disparities in STEM (Lippa, 1998; Su et al., 2009).”
Cognitive Correlates of Personality (2013, background): “The significant association identified between Updating/Monitoring and Openness provides further evidence for Savine et al.’s (2011) conclusions that individuals scoring high on Openness may utilize information thresholding, an aspect of Updating/Monitoring, to a greater degree than those scoring lo”