how stereotype threat may cause poor performance in women

Introduction For years, men have dominated the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). There were few women who could find their own way (Steinberg, Okun, & Aiken, 2012). Women who participate in the STEM program will soon be wondering why they are doing so many women will soon turn their profession into a more acceptable occupation for women (Steele, James, & Barnett, 2002). The lack of wisdom in women's STEM field has become the mainstream of history (Cadinu, Maass, Rosabianca, and Kiesner, 2005).

When women do mathematics unlike men, they risk being judged by the negative stereotypes of women's weak mathematical abilities. We formed this dilemma as a threat and assumed that the anxiety it causes may confuse women's mathematical performance. In Study 1, in carefully selected male and female samples, we showed a pattern observed in literature that women did not succeed in a difficult (but not easy) mathematical test. In Study 2, we demonstrated that this performance difference can be eliminated when describing threats of stereotypes by describing tests to avoid sex difference. However, women were far worse than men with equal qualifications when the tests described gender difference and stated that the threat of stereotypes was high. In the third experiment, we repeated this discovery with fewer people and explored the mediation of this effect.

The threat of stereotypes is said to be a factor of long-standing racial discrimination and gender disparity in academic performance. As stereotyped threats are thought to be caused by specific circumstances, not individual personality and traits, this can happen as long as individual performance confirms a negative stereotype. Since most people have at least one kind of social identity which is a negative stereotype, most people are vulnerable to stereotypes when they encounter stereotypes. Situational factors that increase the threat of stereotypes include the difficulty of tasks, the belief that tasks measure their abilities, and the relevance to stereotypic tasks. Individuals show a greater degree of stereotype threat to their quest for good performance, and when they strongly agree with groups of stereotypes.

The fundamental reason why women exacerbate performance under the threat of stereotypes is because they are secretly afraid that they may be badly deteriorated. For young women and inexperienced women, the threat of stereotypes is particularly serious, as it has not been proved yet. I actually had a colleague who told me something similar to myself in my first job, he sent me all the articles about women who are worse than mathematics and science men It was. Now I know that people doing this often get my performance, attracted to me, or both are being threatened. (Hey, as long as we are "prohibited ideas", I can do some of mine.) That really does not overwhelm me