Perhaps we should look at education for the cause of this disparity. Do teachers have different expectations for boys and girls in math? Do they encourage the two sexes equally? As a former teacher, I could see that girls generally, and it's a solid generalization, already by the age of 10 felt that they weren't 'good at math'. This impression was difficult, but not impossible to change.
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Perhaps we should look at education for the cause of this disparity. Do teachers have different expectations for boys and girls in math? Do they encourage the two sexes equally? As a former teacher, I could see that girls generally, and it's a solid generalization, already by the age of 10 felt that they weren't 'good at math'. This impression was difficult, but not impossible to change.