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

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

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
    24·
    7 months ago

    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@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 months ago

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

    • where_am_i
      3·
      7 months ago

      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.