innate ability – Women in Genome Sciences

Math anxiety learned from adults?

This enlightening article at The Washington Post summarizes recent research showing that math anxiety in elementary school teachers has a profound impact on their students. Disturbingly, by the end of only one school year, “girls taught by a teacher with high math anxiety started to score lower than boys in …

Leslie July 12, 2011 July 12, 2011 Reading

Unique perspective on bias in science

A few years ago, Ben Barres wrote this compelling piece for Nature which confronts the stereotype that women do not succeed in science because of a lack of innate ability. As a female-to-male transgendered person, Barres has a very unique perspective on the situation. Barres wrote the article in direct …

Leslie July 12, 2011 July 12, 2011 Reading