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Education Research Report: Large study shows females are equal to males in math skills

Education Research Report: Large study shows females are equal to males in math skills

Large study shows females are equal to males in math skills

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The mathematical skills of boys and girls, as well as men and women, are substantially equal, according to a new examination of existing studies in the current online edition of journal Psychological Bulletin.


One portion of the new study looked systematically at 242 articles that assessed the math skills of 1,286,350 people, says chief author Janet Hyde, a professor of psychology and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.


These studies, all published in English between 1990 and 2007, looked at people from grade school to college