On the gender-science stereotypes held by scientists: explicit accord with gender-ratios, implicit accord with scientific identity.

ABSTRACT: Women's representation in science has changed substantially, but unevenly, over the past 40 years. In health and biological sciences, for example, women's representation among U.S. scientists is now on par with or greater than men's, while in physical sciences and engineering they remain a clear minority. We investigated whether variation in proportions of women in scientific disciplines is related to differing levels of male-favoring explicit or implicit stereotypes held by students and scientists in each discipline. We hypothesized that science-is-male stereotypes would be weaker in disciplines where women are better represented. This prediction was tested with a sample of 176,935 college-educated participants (70% female), including thousands of engineers, physicians, and scientists. Th

SUBMITTER: Smyth FL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4410517 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature