By: Bahar Gholipour
Published: 01/16/2015 11:22 AM EST on LiveScience
The gender gap in certain academic fields may be due to those fields’ emphasis on brilliance (rather than hard work, for example) and stereotypes that hold that women can’t be geniuses, new research suggests.
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“It is important to be aware of the message we send to young people, including our students, about how one becomes successful in a field,” Cimpian said. “If we avoid labeling and categorizing others based on their perceived intellectual gifts, and instead emphasize what can be achieved with sustained effort and dedication, we might create an atmosphere that is equally attractive to men and women.”
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