On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 08:44:09AM +0800, Charles Haynes wrote: > at least in the USA it's clear that girls are steered away from STEM > curricula by a variety of mechansims, primarily social. Girls aren't > "supposed" to like Maths, and so they don't. Girls that show an interest or > aptitude are subtly or not so subtly told that this is inappropriate, that > they're weird, that they will be unpopular, and so on. > > In fact until they're told they should be bad at it, girls generally show > higher aptitude for maths than boys of comparable age.
I'm not buying that explanation. I expect that the divergence happens at puberty. Does it?
