You should absolutely email the authors of the study.
I was a seventh-grade gifted girl with particular skill in math in 1995, and I GUARANTEE you that sexism and stereotypes were still seriously interfering with girls' math achievement then. It was pretty fucking blatant, and it came from both teachers and fellow students. In fact, resentment from other girls about my math ability (and the fact that I wasn't too tactful about it, a problem exacerbated by my often not receiving adequate enrichment) contributed heavily to my being bullied in both grade five ('93-'94) and grade seven ('95-'96). I experienced sexism from a female teacher who refused to provide me adequate math enrichment, as well, in grade five. There was VERY clearly sexism contributing to the gender gap in math achievement in 1995, so if the gap hasn't changed, I don't see any reason to think its cause has changed.
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Date: 2010-07-08 01:29 am (UTC)I was a seventh-grade gifted girl with particular skill in math in 1995, and I GUARANTEE you that sexism and stereotypes were still seriously interfering with girls' math achievement then. It was pretty fucking blatant, and it came from both teachers and fellow students. In fact, resentment from other girls about my math ability (and the fact that I wasn't too tactful about it, a problem exacerbated by my often not receiving adequate enrichment) contributed heavily to my being bullied in both grade five ('93-'94) and grade seven ('95-'96). I experienced sexism from a female teacher who refused to provide me adequate math enrichment, as well, in grade five. There was VERY clearly sexism contributing to the gender gap in math achievement in 1995, so if the gap hasn't changed, I don't see any reason to think its cause has changed.