The Role of Stereotype Threats in Undermining Girls’ and Women’s Performance and Interest in STEM Fields

By Jenessa R. Shapiro, A-Mm Williams. 2012

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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LBS Research Online (2021, unknown): “Thus, disseminating information about STEM to women and encouraging women to enter this ﬁeld is an important policy goal (Cheryan et al., 2011; Shapiro and Williams, 2012).”
Managing to clear the air: Stereotype threat, women, and leadership (2016, background): “…stereotype threat can be particularly malignant in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields (Good, Aronson, & Harder, 2008; Shapiro & Williams, 2012); it can cause women to disidentify with an entire profession and leave few women in the pipeline to assume leadership roles.”
Math Anxiety, Math Self-Concept, and Math Self-Efficacy in Adult Learners Compared to Traditional Undergraduate Students (2014, background): “However, stereotype threat, which plays a role in women’s but not men’s math performance (Gunderson, Ramirez, Levine, & Beilock, 2012; Shapiro & Williams, 2012; Spencer et al., 1999), can influence these relationships.”
Gender differences in kindergarteners’ robotics and programming achievement (2012, background): “Environmental and situational factors can also trigger a negative stereotype (Shapiro and Williams 2011).”
Algorithmic bias? An empirical study into apparent gender-based discrimination in the display of STEM career ads (2019, background): “Thus, disseminating information about STEM to women and encouraging women to enter this field is an important policy goal (Cheryan et al., 2011; Shapiro and Williams, 2012).”
Gender gap on concept inventories in physics: what is consistent, what is inconsistent,and what factors influence the gap? (2013, methodology): “Also, in both studies (and other studies not discussed here) FCI items 14 [13,34,35] and 23 [13,19,34,35] were found to favor men.”
Double jeopardy in astronomy and planetary science: Women of color face greater risks of gendered and racial harassment (2017, background): “…generally, and women of color especially, which increases the risk of stereotype threat [Steele, 1997; Steele and Aronson, 1998], underestimation of performance [Keller and Dauenheimer, 2003; Nielsen, 2015; Shapiro and Williams, 2012], and a lack of critical mass in job searches [Valian, 1998].”
Not Feeling Good in STEM: Effects of Stereotype Activation and Anticipated Affect on Women’s Career Aspirations (2017, background): “These are traditionally male domains where negative stereotypes about women’s abilities are still widespread (Shapiro and Williams 2012).”