Sex differences in the right tail of cognitive abilities: A 30 year examination

By Jonathan Wai, M. Cacchio, M. Putallaz, Matthew C. Makel. 2010

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Subfields: Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Sex differences in reasoning abilities: Surprising evidence that male–female ratios in the tails of the quantitative reasoning distribution have increased (2013, methodology): “See Tables 4 and 5, which include ratio estimates from directly comparable research (Machin & Pekkarinen, 2008; Wai et al., 2010).”
Beliefs About Cognitive Gender Differences: Accurate for Direction, Underestimated for Size (2011, background): “For example, there are many more males than females who achieve the highest scores on the SAT-M, but in the 1980s the ratio of high scoring males to females was 12:1; it is now between 4:1 and 3:1 ( Wai et al. 2010 ).”
Stereotypes About Gender and Science (2016, background): “Past research on gender and STEM fields has often focused on differences between male and female cognitive abilities (e.g., Kimura, 2007; Lubinski & Benbow, 2007; Newcombe, 2007; Wai et al., 2010), but stereotypes, which are beliefs about gender and science, may be more influential.”
Women in Academic Science: Experimental Findings From Hiring Studies (2018, methodology): “By the mid-1990s it had shrunk to 3.83 to 1, and it does not appear to have shrunk further since then (Wai et al., 2010).”
Motivational Pathways to STEM Career Choices: Using Expectancy-Value Perspective to Understand Individual and Gender Differences in STEM Fields. (2013, background): “However, some researchers conclude that women’s underrepresentation in STEM fields cannot be explained by gender ability differences alone (Feingold, 1992; Wai et al., 2010).”
The role of spatial, verbal, numerical, and general reasoning abilities in complex word problem solving for young female and male adults (2020, result): “…calling attention for similarities between genders (Else-Quest et al. 2010; Hyde et al. 2008), other studies highlight larger differences favoring males at the upper tail of the distribution—thereby keeping open the question of gender gaps in mathematics (Makel et al. 2016; Wai et al. 2010).”
Men, women and STEM: Why the differences and what should be done? (2020, background): “Wai et al. (2010) looked at the ratio of boys-to-girls in the top 0.01% of US seventh graders taking the SAT-Math test between 1981 and 2010.”
Understanding current causes of women's underrepresentation in science (2011, background): “01% has remained relatively stable since the mid-1990s at roughly 4:1 (60).”
Why Are Some STEM Fields More Gender Balanced Than Others? (2017, background): “Some attest that the overrepresentation of boys among the highest math scorers may explain why women are underrepresented in computer science, engineering, and physics (Wai et al., 2010).”