Motivational pathways to STEM career choices: Using expectancy–value perspective to understand individual and gender differences in STEM fields

MT Wang, J Degol - Developmental review, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The United States has made a significant effort and investment in STEM education,
yet the size and the composition of the STEM workforce continues to fail to meet demand. It …

Twenty years of stereotype threat research: A review of psychological mediators

CR Pennington, D Heim, AR Levy, DT Larkin - PloS one, 2016‏ - journals.plos.org
This systematic literature review appraises critically the mediating variables of stereotype
threat. A bibliographic search was conducted across electronic databases between 1995 …

How gender and race stereotypes impact the advancement of scholars in STEM: Professors' biased evaluations of physics and biology post-doctoral candidates

AA Eaton, JF Saunders, RK Jacobson, K West - Sex roles, 2020‏ - Springer
The current study examines how intersecting stereotypes about gender and race influence
faculty perceptions of post-doctoral candidates in STEM fields in the United States. Using a …

Cultural stereotypes and sense of belonging contribute to gender gaps in STEM.

AH Master, AN Meltzoff - Grantee Submission, 2020‏ - ERIC
There is a need to help more students succeed in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) education, with particular interest in reducing current gender gaps in …

The application of social role theory to the study of gender in politics

MC Schneider, AL Bos - Political Psychology, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Social role theory provides a framework to help understand the complexity of gender in the
political sphere. We demonstrate how SRT both helps to explain extant research findings …

Predictors of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics choice options: A meta-analytic path analysis of the social–cognitive choice model by gender and …

RW Lent, HB Sheu, MJ Miller, ME Cusick… - Journal of counseling …, 2018‏ - psycnet.apa.org
We tested the interest and choice portion of social–cognitive career theory (SCCT; Lent,
Brown, & Hackett, 1994) in the context of science, technology, engineering, and …

An underexamined inequality: Cultural and psychological barriers to men's engagement with communal roles

A Croft, T Schmader, K Block - Personality and Social …, 2015‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Social psychological research has sought to understand and mitigate the psychological
barriers that block women's interest, performance, and advancement in male-dominated …

Why they leave: The impact of stereotype threat on the attrition of women and minorities from science, math and engineering majors

MA Beasley, MJ Fischer - Social Psychology of Education, 2012‏ - Springer
This paper examines the effects of group performance anxiety on the attrition of women and
minorities from science, math, and engineering majors. While past research has relied …

[HTML][HTML] Males under-estimate academic performance of their female peers in undergraduate biology classrooms

DZ Grunspan, SL Eddy, SE Brownell, BL Wiggins… - PloS one, 2016‏ - journals.plos.org
Women who start college in one of the natural or physical sciences leave in greater
proportions than their male peers. The reasons for this difference are complex, and one …

Effects of role model exposure on STEM and non‐STEM student engagement

JEL Shin, SR Levy, B London - Journal of Applied Social …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Studies examining factors (eg, STEM stereotypes) that underlie the recruitment and retention
of STEM students are critical as the demand for STEM professionals is rapidly increasing …