Embracing her inner mathematician
Posted in Power of Words, Resources, Schools, Women and Careers on Jun 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
I was really interested in the findings of a study conducted by Janet Hyde, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of psychology, and Janet Mertz, a UW-Madison professor of oncology, on girls and mathematics. They analysed studies from around the world on mathematics performance along with gender inequality as measured by the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index. [...]
