Why do women opt out? Sense of belonging and women's representation in mathematics.
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Why do women opt out? Sense of belonging and women's representation in mathematics.
Sense of belonging to math-one's feelings of membership and acceptance in the math domain-was established as a new and an important factor in the representation gap between males and females in math. First, a new scale of sense of belonging to math was created and validated, and was found to predict unique variance in college students' intent to pursue math in the future (Studies 1-2). Second, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1939-1315,0022-3514
DOI: 10.1037/a0026659