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Author(s): Stephen J. Ceci
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Year: 2007
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Author:  Stephen J. Ceci

Why aren’t more women pursuing careers in science, engineering, and math? Is the lack of women in these fields a consequence of societal discouragements, innate differences in ability between the sexes, or differences in aspirations? These questions always spark a host of other questions–and a multiplicity of answers–all of which have important implications for gender equality and for retaining the nation’s competitiveness in the technological marketplace. The most reliable and current knowledge about women’s participation in science is presented in this collection of fifteen essays written by top researchers on gender differences in ability. The essayists were chosen to reflect the diversity and complexity of views on the topic, about which knowledge has been accumulating and evolving for decades. The editors provide an introduction that defines the key issues and embeds them in historical context and a conclusion that synthesizes and integrates the disparate views. Written accessibly to appeal to students and non-specialists as well as psychologists and other social scientists, the contributors reframe this key controversy and challenge readers’ emotional and political biases through solid empirical science. Taken together, the introduction, essays, and conclusion make a convincing case that sex differences are neither as unambiguous as earlier researchers suggested nor as insubstantial as some current critics claim. Sex differences in career choices are definitely not inevitable, as the past thirty years have documented both a sea change in the gender makeup of various fields and fluctuations in ability-score differences between the sexes. However, as the essays make clear, such changes leave open the possibility of cultural and biological bases for today’s sex differences in science, engineering, and math participation.
 

Table of contents: 

I. Setting the Stage.

Introduction: Striving for Perspective in the Debate on

Women in Science

Wendy M. Williams and Stephen J. Ceci

II. Essays

Chapter 1. Women at the Top in Science-and Elsewhere Virginia Valian

Chapter 2. “Underrepresentation” or Misrepresentation?… Doreen Kimura

Chapter 3. Is Math a Gift? Beliefs That Put Females at Risk. Carol S. Dweck

Chapter 4. Sex, Math, and Science

Elizabeth S. Spelke and Ariel D. Grace

Chapter 5. Taking Science Seriously: Straight Thinking About Spatial Sex Differences

Nora S. Newcombe

Chapter 6. Sex Differences in Personal Attributes for the Development of Scientific Expertise

David S. Lubinski and Camilla Persson Benbow

Chapter 7. Do Sex Differences in Cognition Cause the Shortage of Women in Science?

Melissa Hines.

Chapter 8. Brains, Bias, and Biology: Follow the Data Richard J. Haier

Chapter 9. Science, Sex, and Good Sense: Why Women

Are Underrepresented in Some Areas of Science and Math..

Diane F. Halpern

Chapter 10. Women in Science: Gender Similarities in Abilities and Sociocultural Forces

Janet Shibley Hyde

Chapter 11. The Seeds of Career Choices: Prenatal Sex

Hormone Effects on Psychological Sex Differences.

Sheri A. Berenbaum and Susan Resnick

Chapter 12. Sex Differences in Mind: Keeping Science Distinct From Social Policy

Simon Baron-Cohen

Chapter 13. An Evolutionary Perspective on Sex Differences in Mathematics and the Sciences..

David C. Geary

Chapter 14. Neural Substrates for Sex Differences in Cognition

Ruben C. Gur and Raquel E. Gur

Chapter 15. Where Are All the Women? Gender Differences in Participation in Physical Science and

Engineering

Jacquelynne S. Eccles

III. Conclusion

Are We Moving Closer and Closer Apart? Shared Evidence Leads to Conflicting Views.

Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams

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