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Societal inequalities amplify gender gaps in math

hal.structure.identifierParis-Jourdan Sciences Economiques [PSE]
dc.contributor.authorBreda, Thomas
HAL ID: 181756
ORCID: 0000-0002-6356-7771
hal.structure.identifierCEntre de REcherches en MAthématiques de la DEcision [CEREMADE]
dc.contributor.authorJouini, Elyès
HAL ID: 6654
hal.structure.identifierCEntre de REcherches en MAthématiques de la DEcision [CEREMADE]
dc.contributor.authorNapp, Clotilde
HAL ID: 741006
ORCID: 0000-0002-7008-5949
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-28T09:11:09Z
dc.date.available2018-03-28T09:11:09Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn0036-8075
dc.identifier.urihttps://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/17595
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectgender gapsen
dc.subjectmathen
dc.subject.ddc305en
dc.titleSocietal inequalities amplify gender gaps in mathen
dc.typeArticle accepté pour publication ou publié
dc.description.abstractenWhile gender gaps in average math performance are now close to zero in developed countries, women are still strongly underrepresented among math high performers (1). This gender gap contributes to the underrepresentation of women in math and science in higher education and to their subsequent worse position in the labor market (2, 3). With the roles of nature and nurture (4–6) on gender performance gaps having been debated for more than a century, research in the 1990s and 2000s (7–9) suggested a cultural origin, relating gender gaps in math to measures of countries' gender inequality. However, with more recent studies (10–12) having shown that this relation is weak, today we have no clearly identified relationship between countries' socioeconomic or cultural environment and the gender gap in math. We relate below gender gaps in math to societal inequalities that are not directly related to gender. We find a strong and robust relationship and provide tests suggesting that it is causal: Countries that are generally more egalitarian, or that have institutions more conductive to equality, have a lower gender performance gap in math, suggesting that this gap is partly shaped by more general societal inequalities.en
dc.relation.isversionofjnlnameScience
dc.relation.isversionofjnlvol359en
dc.relation.isversionofjnlissue6381en
dc.relation.isversionofjnldate2018-03
dc.relation.isversionofjnlpages1219-1220en
dc.relation.isversionofdoi10.1126/science.aar2307en
dc.relation.isversionofjnlpublisherAmerican Association for the Advancement of Scienceen
dc.subject.ddclabelStructure de la sociétéen
dc.relation.forthcomingnonen
dc.relation.forthcomingprintnonen
dc.description.ssrncandidatenonen
dc.description.halcandidateouien
dc.description.readershiprechercheen
dc.description.audienceInternationalen
dc.relation.Isversionofjnlpeerreviewednonen
dc.relation.Isversionofjnlpeerreviewednonen
dc.date.updated2018-03-28T08:39:05Z
hal.identifierhal-01745438*
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