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By Age Six, Girls Have Already Stopped Thinking of Their Gender as ‘Brilliant’

Source: Smithsonian

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign conducted a study to determine when girls begin to accept the stereotype that boys are genuises more often than girls.

This entry was posted in Gender Roles and tagged Culture & Society, People, Science & Nature on October 1, 2018 by Anita Hacker.

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