Gender stereotypes about interests start early and cause gender disparities in computer science and engineering

Allison Master, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Sapna Cheryan

2021-11-22articleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences300 citationshybrid

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Abstract

= 172; both preregistered) experimentally demonstrate that 8- to 9-y-old girls are significantly less interested in an activity marked with a gender stereotype ("girls are less interested in this activity than boys") compared to an activity with no such stereotype ("girls and boys are equally interested in this activity"). Taken together, both ecologically valid real-world studies (Studies 1 and 2) and controlled preregistered laboratory experiments (Studies 3 and 4) reveal that stereotypes that girls are less interested than boys in computer science and engineering emerge early and may contribute to gender disparities.

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