Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines

By Sarah-Jane Leslie, Andrei Cimpian, Meredith Meyer, Edward Freeland. Science, 2015

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research

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Gender Stereotypes. (2018, background): “In educational contexts, gender stereotyping causes female students to be seen as less talented than male students in all areas of science (Leslie et al. 2015).”
Achieving Elusive Teacher Change through Challenging Myths about Learning: A Blended Approach (2018, background): “Leslie, Cimpian, Meyer & Freeland [7] interviewed University professors to determine how much they believed that students needed a “gift” in order to be successful in their field.”
Effects of role model exposure on STEM and non-STEM student engagement (2016, background): “Such STEM stereotypes may deter anyone from considering a STEM major or career if one believes that he or she does not possess the natural gift for STEM (e.g., Hong & LinSiegler, 2012; Leslie et al., 2015; Smith, Lewis, Hawthorne, & Hodges, 2013).”
Editor and reviewer gender influence the peer review process but not peer review outcomes at an ecology journal (2016, background): “researchers varies not just among the major STEM fields (Leslie et al. 2015) but also among subdisciplines within fields (e.”
Fitting in or Opting Out: A Review of Key Social-Psychological Factors Influencing a Sense of Belonging for Women in Physics. (2016, background): “practitioners generally believe success is dependent on innate natural talent (as opposed to hard work) [56].”
The role of STEM professors’ mindset beliefs on students’ anticipated psychological experiences and course interest. (2020, background): “Although the aforementioned research suggests that faculty’s fixed mindset beliefs can be associated with negative psychological experiences and academic outcomes among all students, there is reason to believe that faculty’s fixed mindset beliefs may be particularly threatening for women in STEM (e.”
Why Are Some STEM Fields More Gender Balanced Than Others? (2017, positive): “…science, engineering, and physics are perceived as fields that require innate talent or “genius” more than other fields such as biology and chemistry, but mathematics is perceived as requiring at least as much innate talent as computer science, engineering, and physics (Leslie et al., 2015).”