As stated by this news article published by this press release at University of California, Berkley. Researchers have found that the performance between girls and boys in math are now equal! The reason they believe this is the case is that girls take more math classes earlier in today’s society. This leads to no difference in the comprehension of math problems between girls and boys.

I found this research very misleading. The first 3/4 of the article talks about the changes in our school system or how "women took fewer advanced courses in mathematics than men" in previous decades. However, in a few paragraphs of this article, they did mention one thing that I find very important for the analysis of this research. (more…)

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