Men overestimate intelligence in science course,study shows.
A new study found that men in STEM subject areas overestimate their own intelligence and credentials, underestimate the abilities of female colleagues, or that as a result,women themselves doubt their abilities — even when tough evidence such as grades say otherwise. By any definition, Gwen Pearson is pretty smart. She’s got a Ph.
D in entomology and she is now a science writer and education coordinator. But she remembers how often she was told she wasn’t profitable enough, and simply because she was female. “As a graduate student,a fellow male student said, to my face, or that he had no idea how I was admitted to the program because I clearly wasn’t smart enough to be there,” Pearson recalls. Women in science, technology, and engineering and math (STEM) careers have countless similar stories. Read more here.
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