SEX AND SCIENCE: HOW PROFESSOR GENDER PERPETUATES THE GENDER GAP
SEX AND SCIENCE: HOW PROFESSOR GENDER PERPETUATES THE GENDER GAP
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DOI：
10.1162/qjec.2010.125.3.1101
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发表时间：
2010-08-01
影响因子：
13.7
通讯作者：
West, James E.
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作者：
Carrell, Scott E.;Page, Marianne E.;West, James E.
为什么科学界没有更多的女性？本文通过利用美国空军学院的数据，开始阐明这个问题。在美国空军学院，学生被随机分配给教授，学习各种各样的强制性标准化课程。我们关注的是教授性别的作用。我们的研究结果表明，尽管教授性别对男学生的影响很小，但它对女学生在数学和科学课上的表现有很大的影响，对表现好的女学生未来参加数学和科学课程并获得STEM学位的可能性有很大的影响。对于SAT数学成绩在全国排名前5%的学生来说，这一估计最大。在必修的数学和科学入门课程中，优秀的女学生被分配给女教授，消除了课程成绩和STEM专业的性别差距。
Why aren't there more women in science? This paper begins to shed light on this question by exploiting data from the U. S. Air Force Academy, where students are randomly assigned to professors for a wide variety of mandatory standardized courses. We focus on the role of professor gender. Our results suggest that although professor gender has little impact on male students, it has a powerful effect on female students' performance in math and science classes, and high-performing female students' likelihood of taking future math and science courses, and graduating with a STEM degree. The estimates are largest for students whose SAT math scores are in the top 5% of the national distribution. The gender gap in course grades and STEM majors is eradicated when high-performing female students are assigned to female professors in mandatory introductory math and science coursework.