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SUBMITTER: O'Dea RE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6156605 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
O'Dea R E RE Lagisz M M Jennions M D MD Nakagawa S S
Nature communications 20180925 1
Fewer women than men pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), despite girls outperforming boys at school in the relevant subjects. According to the 'variability hypothesis', this over-representation of males is driven by gender differences in variance; greater male variability leads to greater numbers of men who exceed the performance threshold. Here, we use recent meta-analytic advances to compare gender differences in academic grades from over 1.6 million stud ...[more]