Why do girls and boys make different educational choices? (Rapoport & Thibout, 2016)

A study examining why girls choose lower-paying and less prestigious careers than boys has found that girls underestimate their skills in sciences and mathematics even though they perform as well as boys at school. Benoît Rapaport and Claire Thibout write in a 2016 Melbourne Institute Working Paper that as a…
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