Growing up in the Soviet Union I never heard that girls weren’t supposed to be good at math. New paper compares girls math performance in East & West Germany & shows how changing cultural gender expectations can transform performance.https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/11532/math-girls-and-socialism …
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Thanks for this. How do we square this with the other data?
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For sure. And expectations wrt performance in math can in principle be separate from expectations of equality wrt rights & privileges. Interesting space to explore
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I have found this explanation fairly convincing and teach this paperhttps://twitter.com/manes/status/896803429141688325?s=21 …
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Yes, I grew up in Cyprus. Basic no gender related to maths specifically, but men /boys assumed to be better at everything. So it's (sadly) freeing in a way, women suck at everything, so might as well do maths (in my case compsci) .
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In my comp undergrad, 100 men, 5 women, 3 of the women from Cyprus. There's only 1 million Cypriots in the world so that's something. 
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