The Global Search for Education: What do Finland and Puerto Rico Have in Common?
Or how gender perceptions at early age affect later in life
Education • November 2014 • Views: 1,432
When gender perceptions and negative stereotypes towards women in mathematics and science are non-existent, the gender gap in performance seems to disappear. That’s the lesson to be learned from not just Finland, but also Puerto Rico where females are performing as well as males and better than males in some math and science subjects.
This is a very interesting interview on how the gender gap in STEM fields came to be in the USA and how it can be closed down.