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Do gender stereotypes reduce girls' or boys' human capital outcomes?

• Manu40 4y ago
• MisterSandman 4y ago
  I have no credentials to criticize a study like this, especially since it appears to have been cited by 100+ other papers, but the author seems quite obsessed with the whole idea of its not women who are discriminated against, it's men!" Maybe I'm mistaken about how these studies are meant to be written, but it definitely felt like a very obvious bias. The language was also very "I" centric, which was a word I thought we weren't supposed to use in studies.
• jimmygrapes 4y ago
  Worth noting that this study was of Israeli high schools from 2000 to 2002. I don't know how much has changed since then with the advent and adoption of personalized/mass media technology and global cultural trends toward gender equality, but I figure some context should be added to the headline and abstract. Additionally, Israeli culture of that time was one of the more equitable when it comes to things like women in military and STEM, which IMHO makes it a pretty good place to use as a study compared to other countries where men and women would have been more culturally guided to disparate career paths (intentionally or not). That said, there is one significant factor identified in this study which I don't think has changed much, and is prevalent in most of the "Western World": there are significantly more female teachers than male teachers in these grade levels. I don't have data on hand to support this, but I doubt there's much argument on that point.