Gender stereotypes at home may hamper female students’ ability to progress in the classroom, research suggests

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  • @[email protected]
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    Hmm. In my personal experience as a teacher, parents overestimate all skills of their children if their child is talkative and extroverted. The silent children are the ones mostly underestimated. Maybe the girls are generally just more silent and therefore underestimated more?

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      …so women are encountering roadblocks to an education they could get due to social tendencies surrounding gender in education and parenting.

        • @[email protected]
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          yes, sure, in a poetic sense, but no in the literal scientific data sense; the article says parents were asked to guess against literal test scores that the kids took

          more research would be needed to examine long term meanings of overestimation, and i’d be careful not to draw conclusions before then

  • @obre
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    67 months ago

    I thought this was an onion article at first glance lol

  • @blazeknave
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    Chaperoned a trip to a science museum recently and you can feel the shyness/weariness of the little girls to show their excitement. The boys run around doing the fuck they want bc “boys will be boys” as usual.

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    In my country though, it’s the other way around. Girls are seen as more meticulous, systemactic and better with numbers and records.

    A lot accountants and back office workers are all women. Hell, in the company I work for there’s not a single guy in the accounting department and majority are women in other departments like administration, HR and Sales Operation.

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    That seems wrong. I underestimate my son’s skills and therefore made him practice more than my daughter who was always in GT math.

    If I had overestimated my son’s math skills, he wouldn’t be doing as well today.

    • @Phegan
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      67 months ago

      I think it’s more an overestimation of their potential and ceiling, therefore they invest more time.

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      encouragement and additional advanced math education would go against your argument. E.g. more parents believe their kid is gifted and more of them push their kid or explore opportunities for the kid to get better education in the subject.