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Both male and female first year STEM majors are equally likely to have taken and have earned high grades in math and science classes in high school and have confidence in their math and science ability. But, many of them leave STEM majors early in their college careers or they don’t chose STEM major at all?
The biggest question now is what happened to all the women who did well in high school math and physics? Where have they been? Why are they only few women in computer science? Women who did better and equivalent to boys what happened to all of them. Why aren’t there a lot of women in computer science field? Why aren’t they choosing the stem field or why are they leaving the STEM …show more content…
And they were sacred to be around a lot of men. Second, they have lack interest in STEM Majors. Third, they are afraid lest they might be biased. Fourth they think that STEM field is for guys.
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Hyde, J. S., Lindberg, S. M., Linn, M. C., Ellis, A. B., & Williams, C. C. (2008, July 25). Gender similarities characterize math performance. Science, 321,