Publication Cover
Psychological Inquiry
An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory
Volume 32, 2021 - Issue 2
1,250
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Target Article

Understanding the Developmental Roots of Gender Gaps in Politics

, , &

References

  • AAUW. (2019). The STEM Gap: Women and Girls in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. https://www.aauw.org/resources/research/the-stem-gap/#:∼:text=Women%20make%20up%20only%2028,like%20computer%20science%20and%20engineering.
  • Alexander, D., & Andersen, K. (1993). Gender as a factor in the attribution of leadership traits. Political Research Quarterly, 46(3), 527–545. doi:10.1177/106591299304600305
  • Alper, J. (1993). The pipeline is leaking women all the way along. Science, 260(5106), 409–411. doi:10.1126/science.260.5106.409
  • American Students Government Association. (2018). SG database. Retrieved from https://asgahome.com/sg-database/.
  • Anastasopoulos, L. (2016). Estimating the gender penalty in House of Representative elections using a regression discontinuity design. Electoral Studies, 43, 150–157. doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2016.04.008
  • Andre, T., Whigham, M., Hendrickson, A., & Chambers, S. (1999). Competency beliefs, positive affect, and gender stereotypes of elementary students and their parents about science versus other school subjects. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 36(6), 719–747. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1098-2736(199908)36:6<719::AID-TEA8>3.0.CO;2-R
  • Ansolabehere, S., & Hersh, E. (2013). Gender, race, age and voting: A research note. Politics and Governance, 1(2), 132–137. doi:10.17645/pag.v1i2.97
  • Anzia, S. F., & Berry, C. R. (2011). The Jackie (and Jill) Robinson effect: Why do congresswomen outperform congressmen? American Journal of Political Science, 55(3), 478–493. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00512.x
  • Archer, L., DeWitt, J., Osborne, J., Dillon, J., Willis, B., & Wong, B. (2013). “Not girly, not sexy, not glamorous”: Primary school girls’ and parents’ constructions of science aspirations. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 21(1), 171–194. doi:10.1080/14681366.2012.748676
  • Astuto, J., & Ruck, M. D. (2010). Early Childhood as a Foundation for Civic Engagement. In L. R. Sherrod, J. Torney-Purta, & C. A. Flanagan (Eds.), Handbook of research on civic engagement in youth (pp. 249–275). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  • Barnes, T. D., & O'Brien, D. Z. (2018). Defending the realm: The appointment of female defense ministers worldwide. American Journal of Political Science, 62(2), 355–368. doi:10.1111/ajps.12337
  • Beaman, L., Chattopadhyay, R., Duflo, E., Pande, R., & Topalova, P. (2009). Powerful women: Does exposure reduce bias? Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(4), 1497–1540. doi:10.1162/qjec.2009.124.4.1497
  • Beaman, L., Duflo, E., Pande, R., & Topalova, P. (2012). Female leadership raises aspirations and educational attainment for girls: A policy experiment in India. Science, 335(6068), 582–586. doi:10.1126/science.1212382
  • Begeny, C. T., Ryan, M. K., Moss-Racusin, C. A., & Ravetz, G. (2020). In some professions, women have become well represented, yet gender bias persists-Perpetuated by those who think it is not happening. Science Advances, 6(26), eaba7814. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aba7814
  • Beilock, S. L., Gunderson, E. A., Ramirez, G., & Levine, S. C. (2010). Female teachers' math anxiety affects girls' math achievement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(5), 1860–1863. doi:10.1073/pnas.0910967107
  • Bernick, E. M., & Heidbreder, B. (2018). Disproportionately overrepresented: Women in local elected offices. State and Local Government Review, 50(3), 165–176. doi:10.1177/0160323x18813641
  • Betz, D. E., & Sekaquaptewa, D. (2012). My fair physicist? Feminine math and science role models demotivate young girls. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(6), 738–746. doi:10.1177/1948550612440735
  • Bhanot, R., & Jovanovic, J. (2005). Do parents’ academic gender stereotypes influence whether they intrude on their children’s homework? Sex Roles, 52(9–10), 597–607. doi:10.1007/s11199-005-3728-4
  • Bialik, K. (2019). For the fifth time in a row, the new Congress is the most racially and ethnically diverse ever. Retrieved from https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/08/for-the-fifth-time-in-a-row-the-new-congress-is-the-most-racially-and-ethnically-diverse-ever/.
  • Bian, L., Leslie, S.-J., & Cimpian, A. (2017). Gender stereotypes about intellectual ability emerge early and influence children's interests. Science, 355(6323), 389–391. doi:10.1126/science.aah6524
  • Bian, L., Leslie, S.-J., & Cimpian, A. (2018). Evidence of bias against girls and women in contexts that emphasize intellectual ability. American Psychologist, 73(9), 1139–1153. doi:10.1037/amp0000427
  • Bigler, R. S., Arthur, A. E., Hughes, J. M., & Patterson, M. M. (2008). The politics of race and gender: Children’s perceptions of discrimination and the U.S. presidency. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 8(1), 83–112. doi:10.1111/j.1530-2415.2008.00161.x
  • Blažev, M., Karabegović, M., Burušić, J., & Selimbegović, L. (2017). Predicting gender-STEM stereotyped beliefs among boys and girls from prior school achievement and interest in STEM school subjects. Social Psychology of Education, 20(4), 831–847. doi:10.1007/s11218-017-9397-7
  • Bleeker, M. M., & Jacobs, J. E. (2004). Achievement in math and science: Do mothers’ beliefs matter 12 years later? Journal of Educational Psychology, 96(1), 97–109. doi:10.1037/0022-0663.96.1.97
  • Bligh, M. C., & Kohles, J. C. (2008). Negotiating gender role expectations: Rhetorical leadership and women in the US Senate. Leadership, 4(4), 381–402. doi:10.1177/1742715008095187
  • Block, K., Gonzalez, A. M., Schmader, T., & Baron, A. S. (2018). Early gender differences in core values predict anticipated family versus career orientation. Psychological Science, 29(9), 1540–1547. doi:10.1177/0956797618776942
  • Born, A., Ranehill, E., & Sandberg, A. (2020). Gender and willingness to lead – Does the gender composition of teams matter? Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3207198
  • Bos, A. L. (2011). Out of control: Delegates’ information sources and perceptions of female candidates. Political Communication, 28(1), 87–109. doi:10.1080/10584609.2010.540306
  • Bos, A. L., Schneider, M. C., & Utz, B. L. (2018). Navigating the political labyrinth: Gender stereotypes and prejudice in U.S. elections. In C. B. Travis, J. W. White, A. Rutherford, W. S. Williams, S. L. Cook, & K. F. Wyche (Eds.), APA handbook of the psychology of women: Perspectives on women’s private and public lives (Vol. 2, pp. 367–384). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Boston, J. S., & Cimpian, A. (2018). How do we encourage gifted girls to pursue and succeed in science and engineering. Gifted Child Today, 41(4), 196–138. doi:10.1177/1076217518786955
  • Brescoll, V. L. (2011). Who takes the floor and why: Gender, power, and volubility in organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 56(4), 622–641. doi:10.1177/0001839212439994
  • Brotman, J. S., & Moore, F. M. (2008). Girls and science: A review of four themes in the science education literature. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 45(9), 971–1002. doi:10.1002/tea.20241
  • Brown, C. S., & Leaper, C. (2010). Latina and European American girls' experiences with academic sexism and their self-concepts in mathematics and science during adolescence. Sex Roles, 63(11–12), 860–870. doi:10.1007/s11199-010-9856-5
  • Brown, N. E. (2014). Political participation of women of color: An intersectional analysis. Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 35(4), 315–348. doi:10.1080/1554477X.2014.955406
  • Burns, N., Verba, S., & Lehman, K. (2001). The private roots of public action: Gender, equality, and political participation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
  • Caldwell, E. F., & Wilbraham, S. J. (2018). Hairdressing in space: Depiction of gender in science books for children. Journal of Science & Popular Culture, 1(2), 101–118. doi:10.1386/jspc.1.2.101_1
  • Campbell, D. E., & Wolbrecht, C. (2006). See Jane run: Women politicians as role models for adolescents. The Journal of Politics, 68(2), 233–247. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2508.2006.00402.x
  • Carli, L. L., Alawa, L., Lee, Y. A., Zhao, B., & Kim, E. (2016). Stereotypes about gender and science: Women ≠ Scientists. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40(2), 244–260. doi:10.1177/0361684315622645
  • Carnes, N. (2018). The cash ceiling: Why only the rich run for office—and what we can do about it. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/doi:10.2307/j.ctv39x4w6.
  • Carroll, S. J., & Sanbonmatsu, K. (2013). More women can run: Gender and pathways to the state legislature. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Ceci, S. J. (2018). Women in academic science: Experimental findings from hiring studies. Educational Psychologist, 53(1), 22–41. doi:10.1080/00461520.2017.1396462
  • Ceci, S. J., Ginther, D. K., Kahn, S., & Williams, W. M. (2014). Women in academic science: A changing landscape. Psychological Science in the Public Interest: A Journal of the American Psychological Society, 15(3), 75–141. doi:10.1177/1529100614541236
  • Ceci, S. J., & Williams, W. M. (2010). Sex differences in math-intensive fields. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19(5), 275–279. doi:10.1177/0963721410383241
  • Ceci, S. J., Williams, W. M., & Barnett, S. M. (2009). Women's underrepresentation in science: Sociocultural and biological considerations. Psychological Bulletin, 135(2), 218–261. doi:10.1037/a0014412
  • Celis, K., Erzeel, S., & Mügge, L. (2015). Intersectional puzzles: Understanding inclusion and equality in political recruitment. Politics & Gender, 11(04), 765–770. doi:10.1017/S1743923X15000501
  • Chambers, D. W. (1983). Stereotypic images of the scientist: The draw-a-scientist test. Science Education, 67(2), 255–265. doi:10.1002/sce.3730670213
  • Chang, A., Sandhofer, C. M., & Brown, C. S. (2011). Gender biases in early number exposure to preschool-aged children. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 30(4), 440–450. doi:10.1177/0261927X11416207
  • Charles, K. K., Guryan, J., & Pan, J. (2018). The effects of sexism on American women: The role of norms vs. discrimination. Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, University of Chicago. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3233788
  • Chen, J., & Houser, D. (2019). When are women willing to lead? The effect of team gender composition and gendered tasks. The Leadership Quarterly, 30(6), 101340. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101340
  • Cheryan, S., Meltzoff, A. N., & Kim, S. (2011). Classrooms matter: The design of virtual classrooms influences gender disparities in computer science classes. Computers & Education, 57(2), 1825–1835. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2011.02.004
  • Cheryan, S., & Plaut, V. C. (2010). Explaining underrepresentation: A theory of precluded interest. Sex Roles, 63(7–8), 475–488. doi:10.1007/s11199-010-9835-x
  • Cheryan, S., Plaut, V. C., Davies, P. G., & Steele, C. M. (2009). Ambient belonging: How stereotypical cues impact gender participation in computer science. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97(6), 1045–1060. doi:10.1037/a0016239
  • Cheryan, S., Siy, J. O., Vichayapai, M., Drury, B. J., & Kim, S. (2011). Do female and male role models who embody STEM stereotypes hinder women’s anticipated success in STEM? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2(6), 656–664. doi:10.1177/1948550611405218
  • Cheryan, S., Ziegler, S. A., Montoya, A., & Jiang, L. (2017). Why are some STEM fields more gender balanced than others? Psychological Bulletin, 143(1), 1–35. doi:10.1037/bul0000052
  • Cheryan, S., Ziegler, S. A., Plaut, V. C., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2014). Designing classrooms to maximize student achievement. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1(1), 4–12. doi:10.1177/2372732214548677
  • Childs, S., & Hughes, M. (2018). “Which men?” How an intersectional perspective on men and masculinities helps explain women’s political underrepresentation. Politics & Gender, 14(2), 282–287. doi:10.1017/S1743923X1800017X
  • Cimpian, J. R., Kim, T. H., & McDermott, Z. T. (2020). Understanding persistent gender gaps in STEM. Science, 368(6497), 1317–1319. doi:10.1126/science.aba7377
  • Cimpian, J. R., Lubienski, S. T., Timmer, J. D., Makowski, M. B., & Miller, E. K. (2016). Have gender gaps in math closed? Achievement, teacher perceptions, and learning behaviors across two ECLS-K cohorts. AERA Open, 2(4), 1–19. doi:10.1177/2332858416673617
  • Clayton, A. (2018). Do gender quotas really reduce bias? Evidence from a policy experiment in Southern Africa. Journal of Experimental Political Science, 5(3), 182–194. doi:10.1017/XPS.2018.8
  • Cole, E. R., & Stewart, A. J. (1996). Meanings of political participation among Black and White women: Political identity and social responsibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71(1), 130–140. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.71.1.130
  • Copur-Gencturk, Y., Cimpian, J. R., Lubienski, S. T., & Thacker, I. (2020). Teachers’ Bias Against the Mathematical Ability of Female, Black, and Hispanic Students. Educational Researcher, 49(1), 30–43. doi:10.3102/0013189X19890577
  • Cornell Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. (2016). Madame President: Changing attitudes about a women president. Retrieved from https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/blog/madame-president-changing-attitudes-about-woman-president-blog.
  • Correll, S. J. (2001). Gender and the career choice process: The role of biased self-assessments. American Journal of Sociology, 106(6), 1691–1730. doi:10.1086/321299
  • Coyle, E. F., & Liben, L. S. (2020). Gendered packaging of a STEM toy influences children’s play, mechanical learning, and mothers’ play guidance. Child Development, 91(1), 43–62. doi:10.1111/cdev.13139
  • Crowder-Meyer, M. (2020). Baker, bus driver, babysitter, candidate? Revealing the gendered development of political ambition among ordinary Americans. Political Behavior, 42(2), 359–384. doi:10.1007/s11109-018-9498-9
  • Crowley, K., Callanan, M., Tenenbaum, H. R., & Allen, E. (2001). Parents explain more often to boys than to girls during shared scientific thinking. Psychological Science, 12(3), 258–261. doi:10.1111/1467-9280.00347
  • Cvencek, D., Meltzoff, A. N., & Greenwald, A. G. (2011). Math-gender stereotypes in elementary school children. Child Development, 82(3), 766–779. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01529.x
  • Cvencek, D., Meltzoff, A. N., & Kapur, M. (2014). Cognitive consistency and math-gender stereotypes in Singaporean children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 117, 73–91. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2013.07.018
  • Dasgupta, N. (2011). Ingroup experts and peers as social vaccines who inoculate the self-concept: The stereotype inoculation model. Psychological Inquiry, 22(4), 231–246. doi:10.1080/1047840X.2011.607313
  • Dasgupta, N., & Asgari, S. (2004). Seeing is believing: Exposure to counterstereotypic women leaders and its effect on the malleability of automatic gender stereotyping. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40(5), 642–658. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2004.02.003
  • Dasgupta, N., & Stout, J. G. (2014). Girls and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: STEMing the tide and broadening participation in STEM careers. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1(1), 21–29. doi:10.1177/2372732214549471
  • del Río, M. F., & Strasser, K. (2013). Preschool children’s beliefs about gender differences in academic skills. Sex Roles, 68(3–4), 231–238. doi:10.1007/s11199-012-0195-6
  • del Río, M. F., Strasser, K., Cvencek, D., Susperreguy, M. I., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2019). Chilean kindergarten children's beliefs about mathematics: Family matters. Developmental Psychology, 55(4), 687–702. doi:10.1037/dev0000658
  • Diekman, A. B., & Steinberg, M. (2013). Navigating social roles in pursuit of important goals: A communal goal congruity account of STEM pursuits. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7(7), 487–501. doi:10.1111/spc3.12042
  • Diekman, A. B., Brown, E. R., Johnston, A. M., & Clark, E. K. (2010). Seeking congruity between goals and roles: A new look at why women opt out of science, technology, engineering and mathematical careers. Psychological Science, 21(8), 1051–1057. doi:10.1177/0956797610377342
  • Diekman, A. B., Steinberg, M., Brown, E. R., Belanger, A. L., & Clark, E. K. (2017). A goal congruity model of role entry, engagement, and exit: understanding communal goal processes in STEM gender gaps. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 21(2), 142–175. doi:10.1177/1088868316642141
  • Diekman, A. B., Weisgram, E. S., & Belanger, A. L. (2015). New routes to recruiting and retaining women in STEM: Policy implications of a communal goal congruity perspective. Social Issues and Policy Review, 9(1), 52–88. doi:10.1111/sipr.12010
  • Diemer, M. A., & Li, C.-H. (2011). Critical consciousness development and political participation among marginalized youth. Child Development, 82(6), 1815–1833. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01650.x
  • Ditonto, T. M. (2017). A high bar or a double standard? Gender, competence, and information in political campaigns. Political Behavior, 39(2), 301–325. doi:10.1007/s11109-016-9357-5
  • Ditonto, T. M., Hamilton, A. J., & Redlawsk, D. P. (2014). Gender stereotypes, information search, and voting behavior in political campaigns. Political Behavior, 36(2), 335–358. doi:10.1007/s11109-013-9232-6
  • Dittmar, K., Sanbonmatsu, K., Carroll, S. J., Walsh, D., & Wineinger, C. (2017). Representation matters: Women in the U.S. Congress. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for American Women in Politics.
  • Dolan, K. (2014). Gender stereotypes, candidate evaluations, and voting for women candidates: What really matters? Political Research Quarterly, 67(1), 96–107. doi:10.1177/1065912913487949
  • Dolan, K., & Lynch, T. (2016). The impact of gender stereotypes on voting for women candidates by level and type of office. Politics & Gender, 12(03), 573–595. doi:10.1017/S1743923X16000246
  • Eagly, A. H., Gartzia, L., & Carli, L. L. (2014). Female advantage: Revisited. In S. Kumra, R. Simpson, & R. J. Burke (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of gender in organizations (pp. 153–174). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Eagly, A. H., & Heilman, M. E. (2016). Gender and leadership: Introduction to the special issue. The Leadership Quarterly, 27(3), 349–353. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2016.04.002
  • Eagly, A. H., & Karau, S. J. (2002). Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders. Psychological Review, 109(3), 573–598. doi:10.1037//0033-295X.109.3.573
  • Eagly, A. H., & Mladinic, A. (1994). Are people prejudiced against women? Some answers from research on attitudes, gender stereotypes, and judgments of competence. European Review of Social Psychology, 5(1), 1–35. doi:10.1080/14792779543000002
  • Eagly, A. H., & Steffen, V. J. (1984). Gender stereotypes stem from the distribution of women and men into social roles. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46(4), 735–754. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.46.4.735
  • Eagly, A. H., & Wood, W. (2012). Social role theory. In P. A. M. Van Lange, A. W. Kruglanski, & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 458–476). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Eaton, A. A., Saunders, J. F., Jacobson, R. K., & West, K. (2020). How gender and race stereotypes impact the advancement of scholars in STEM: Professors’ biased evaluations of physics and biology post-doctoral candidates. Sex Roles, 82(3–4), 127–141. doi:10.1007/s11199-019-01052-w
  • Eccles, J. S., Wigfield, A., Harold, R. D., & Blumenfeld, P. (1993). Age and gender differences in children’s self- and task perceptions during elementary school. Child Development, 64(3), 830. doi:10.2307/1131221
  • Ehrlinger, J., & Dunning, D. (2003). How chronic self-views influence (and potentially mislead) estimates of performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(1), 5–17. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.84.1.5
  • Else-Quest, N. M., Hyde, J. S., & Linn, M. C. (2010). Cross-national patterns of gender differences in mathematics: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 136(1), 103–127. doi:10.1037/a0018053
  • Farland-Smith, D. (2014). How important are same-gender role models to middle school girls? Five characteristics of mentors who sustain middle-school girls’ interest in science careers. Journal of Education and Training, 2(1), 1–21. doi:10.5296/jet.v2i1.5423
  • Farris, E. M., & Holman, M. R. (2014). Social capital and solving the puzzle of Black women’s political participation. Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2(3), 331–349. doi:10.1080/21565503.2014.925813
  • Ferrant, G., & Nowacka, K. (2015). Measuring the drivers of gender inequality and their impact on development: The role of discriminatory social institutions. Gender & Development, 23(2), 319–332. doi:10.1080/13552074.2015.1053221
  • Flore, P. C., Mulder, J., & Wicherts, J. M. (2018). The influence of gender stereotype threat on mathematics test scores of Dutch high school students: A registered report. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 3(2), 140–174. doi:10.1080/23743603.2018.1559647
  • Fort, D. C., & Varney, H. L. (1989). How students see scientists: Mostly male, mostly white, and mostly benevolent. Science and Children, 26(8), 8–13.
  • Fox, R. L., & Lawless, J. L. (2005). To run or not to run for office: Explaining nascent political ambition. American Journal of Political Science, 49(3), 642–659. doi:10.2307/3647737
  • Fox, R. L., & Lawless, J. L. (2010). If only they’d ask: Gender, recruitment, and political Ambition. The Journal of Politics, 72(2), 310–326. doi:10.1017/S0022381609990752
  • Fox, R. L., & Lawless, J. L. (2014). Uncovering the origins of the gender gap in political ambition. American Political Science Review, 108(3), 499–421. doi:10.1017/S0003055414000227
  • Fox, R. L., & Smith, E. R. A. N. (1998). The role of candidate sex in voter decision-making. Political Psychology, 19(2), 405–419. doi:10.1111/0162-895X.00110
  • Fridkin, K. L., & Kenney, P. J. (2007). Examining the gender gap in children’s attitudes toward politics. Sex Roles, 56(3–4), 133–140. doi:10.1007/s11199-006-9156-2
  • Fulton, S. A. (2012). Running backwards and in high heels: The gendered quality gap and incumbent electoral success. Political Research Quarterly, 65(2), 303–314. doi:10.1177/1065912911401419
  • Furman, W., & Buhrmester, D. (1985). Children’s perceptions of the personal relationships in their social networks. Developmental Psychology, 21(6), 1016–1024. doi:10.1037//0012-1649.21.6.1016
  • Galdi, S., Cadinu, M., & Tomasetto, C. (2014). The roots of stereotype threat: When automatic associations disrupt girls' math performance. Child Development, 85(1), 250–263. doi:10.1111/cdev.12128
  • Galdi, S., Mirisola, A., & Tomasetto, C. (2017). On the relations between parents’ and children’s implicit and explicit academic gender stereotypes. Psicologia Sociale, 2(2), 215–238. doi:10.1482/87248
  • Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, & Lydia Hill Foundation. (2018). Portray her: Representations of women STEM characters in media. Retrieved from https://seejane.org/wp-content/uploads/portray-her-full-report.pdf.
  • Girl Scout Research Institute. (2019). Decoding the digital girl. Retrieved from https://www.girlscouts.org/content/dam/girlscouts-gsusa/forms-and-documents/about-girl-scouts/research/GSUSA_GSRI_Decoding-the-Digital-Girl_Full-Report.pdf.
  • Girl Scouts Research Institute. (2008). Change it up! What girls say about redefining leadership. Retrieved from https://www.girlscouts.org/content/dam/girlscouts-gsusa/forms-and-documents/about-girl-scouts/research/change_it_up_executive_summary_english.pdf.
  • Girl Scouts Research Institute. (2014). Running for a change: Girls and politics pulse poll. Retrieved from https://www.girlscouts.org/content/dam/girlscouts-gsusa/forms-and-documents/about-girl-scouts/research/girls_and_politics.pdf.
  • Glick, P., Fiske, S. T., Mladinic, A., Saiz, J. L., Abrams, D., Masser, B., … López, W. L. (2000). Beyond prejudice as simple antipathy: Hostile and benevolent sexism across cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79(5), 763–775. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.79.5.763
  • Gonzalez, A. M., Oh, H. J. J., & Baron, A. S. (2019). The hidden classroom: How gender stereotypes impact academic achievement. doi:10.31234/osf.io/dws9q
  • Good, C., Rattan, A., & Dweck, C. S. (2012). Why do women opt out? Sense of belonging and women’s representation in mathematics. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(4), 700–717. doi:10.1037/a0026659
  • Good, J. J., Woodzicka, J. A., & Wingfield, L. C. (2010). The effects of gender stereotypic and counter-stereotypic textbook images on science performance. The Journal of Social Psychology, 150(2), 132–147. doi:10.1080/00224540903366552
  • Greenlee, J. S., Holman, M. R., & Vansickle-Ward, R. (2014). Making it personal: Assessing the impact of in-class exercises on closing the gender gap in political ambition. Journal of Political Science Education, 10(1), 48–61. doi:10.1080/15512169.2013.859083
  • Gunderson, E. A., Ramirez, G., Levine, S. C., & Beilock, S. L. (2012). The role of parents and teachers in the development of gender-related math attitudes. Sex Roles, 66(3–4), 153–166. doi:10.1007/s11199-011-9996-2
  • Halpern, D. F., Eliot, L., Bigler, R. S., Fabes, R. A., Hanish, L. D., Hyde, J., … Martin, C. L. (2011). The pseudoscience of single-sex schooling. Science, 333(6050), 1706–1707.
  • Heldman, C., Cooper, R., Narayanan, S., Somandepalli, K., Burrows, E., Christensen, S., … Virgo, J. (2020). See Jane 2020 film. Retrieved from https://seejane.org/wp-content/uploads/2020-film-historic-gender-parity-in-family-films-report-4.20.pdf.
  • Heldman, C., Narayanan, S., Cooper, R., Conroy, M., Giaccardi, S., Cooper-Jones, N., … Young, A. (2020). See Jane 2020 TV report. Retrieved from https://seejane.org/wp-content/uploads/2020-tv-historic-screen-time-speaking-time-for-female-characters-report.pdf.
  • Herzig, A. H. (2004). Becoming mathematicians: Women and students of color choosing and leaving doctoral mathematics. Review of Educational Research, 74(2), 171–214. doi:10.3102/00346543074002171
  • Holman, M. R., Merolla, J. L., & Zechmeister, E. J. (2016). Terrorist threat, male stereotypes, and candidate evaluations. Political Research Quarterly, 69(1), 134–147. doi:10.1177/1065912915624018
  • Holman, M. R., & Schneider, M. C. (2018). Gender, race, and political ambition: How intersectionality and frames influence interest in political office. Politics, Groups & Identities, 6(2), 268–280. doi:10.1080/21565503.2016.1208105
  • Hoyt, C. L., & Murphy, S. E. (2016). Managing to clear the air: Stereotype threat, women, and leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 27(3), 387–399. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2015.11.002
  • Hoyt, C. L., & Simon, S. (2011). Female leaders: Injurious or inspiring role models for women? Psychology of Women Quarterly, 35(1), 143–157. doi:10.1177/0361684310385216
  • Huddy, L., & Capelos, T. (2002). Gender Stereotyping and Candidate Evaluation. In V. C. Ottati, R. S. Tindale, J. Edwards, F. B. Bryant, L. Health, D. C. O’Connell, E. J. Posavac (Eds.), The Social Psychology of Politics. Social Psychological Applications to Social Issues (pp. 29–53). Boston, MA: Springer.
  • Huddy, L., & Terkildsen, N. (1993a). Gender stereotypes and the perception of male and female candidates. American Journal of Political Science, 37(1), 119–147. doi:10.2307/2111526
  • Huddy, L., & Terkildsen, N. (1993b). The consequences of gender stereotypes for women candidates at different levels and types of office. Political Research Quarterly, 46(3), 503–525. doi:10.2307/448945
  • Hughes, M. M. (2011). Intersectionality, quotas, and minority women’s political representation worldwide. American Political Science Review, 105(3), 604–620. doi:10.1017/S0003055411000293
  • Huguet, P., & Régner, I. (2007). Stereotype threat among schoolgirls in quasi-ordinary classroom circumstances. Journal of Educational Psychology, 99(3), 545–560. doi:10.1037/0022-0663.99.3.545
  • Hyde, J. S., Lindberg, S. M., Linn, M. C., Ellis, A. B., & Williams, C. C. (2008). Diversity, Gender similarities characterize math performance. Science, 321(5888), 494–495. doi:10.1126/science.1160364
  • Ireland, D. T., Freeman, K. E., Winston-Proctor, C. E., DeLaine, K. D., McDonald Lowe, S., & Woodson, K. M. (2018). (Un)hidden figures: A synthesis of research examining the intersectional experiences of Black women and girls in STEM education. Review of Research in Education, 42(1), 226–254. doi:10.3102/0091732X18759072
  • Jacobs, C. E. (2020). Ready to lead: Leadership supports and barriers for Black and Latinx girls. https://cdn.girlsleadership.org/app/uploads/2020/07/GirlsLeadership_ReadytoLeadReport.pdf
  • Jacobs, J. E., & Eccles, J. S. (1992). The impact of mothers’ gender-role stereotypic beliefs on mothers’ and children’s ability perceptions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63(6), 932–944. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.63.6.932
  • Jaxon, J., Lei, R. F., Shachnai, R., Chestnut, E. K., & Cimpian, A. (2019). The acquisition of gender stereotypes about intellectual ability: Intersections with race. Journal of Social Issues, 75(4), 1192–1215. doi:10.1111/josi.12352
  • Jennings, M. K., Stoker, L., & Bowers, J. (2009). Politics across generations: Family transmission reexamined. The Journal of Politics, 71(3), 782–799. doi:10.1017/S0022381609090719
  • Jordan-Zachery, J. S., & Alexander-Floyd, N. G. (Eds.). (2018). Black women in politics: Demanding citizenship, challenging power, and seeking justice. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
  • Junn, J., & Brown, N. E. (2008). What revolution? Incorporating intersectionality in women and politics. In C. Wolbrecht, K. Beckwith, & L. Baldez (Eds.), Political Women and American Democracy (pp. 64–78). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Kanthak, K., & Woon, J. (2015). Women don’t run? Election aversion and candidate entry. American Journal of Political Science, 59(3), 595–612. doi:10.1111/ajps.12158
  • Kenthirarajah, D., & Walton, G. M. (2015). How brief social-psychological interventions can cause enduring effects (pp. 1–15). InEmerging trends in the social and behavioral sciences: An interdisciplinary, searchable, and linkable resource. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  • Kerkhoven, A. H., Russo, P., Land-Zandstra, A. M., Saxena, A., & Rodenburg, F. J. (2016). Gender stereotypes in science education resources: A visual content analysis. PLOS One, 11(11), e0165037–13. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0165037
  • Koenig, A. M., Eagly, A. H., Mitchell, A. A., & Ristikari, T. (2011). Are leader stereotypes masculine? A meta-analysis of three research paradigms. Psychological Bulletin, 137(4), 616–642. doi:10.1037/a0023557
  • Kowalski, T. J., McCord, R. S., Petersen, G. J., Young, I. P., & Ellerson, N. M. (2016). The American school superintendent: 2010 Decennial study. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Education.
  • Krook, M. L. (2009). Quotas for women in politics. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
  • Krupnikov, Y., Piston, S., & Bauer, N. M. (2016). Saving face: Identifying voter responses to Black candidates and female candidates. Political Psychology, 37(2), 253–273. doi:10.1111/pops.12261
  • Latu, I. M., Mast, M. S., Lammers, J., & Bombari, D. (2013). Successful female leaders empower women’s behavior in leadership tasks. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(3), 444–448. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2013.01.003
  • Lawless, J. L. (2004). Women, war, and winning elections: Gender stereotyping in the post-September 11th era. Political Research Quarterly, 57(3), 479–490. doi:10.1177/106591290405700312
  • Lawless, J. L. (2015). Female candidates and legislators. Annual Review of Political Science, 18(1), 349–366. doi:10.1146/annurev-polisci-020614-094613
  • Lawless, J. L., & Fox, R. L. (2008). Why are women still not running for public office? Issues in Governance Studies, 16, 1–20. Retrieved from https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/05_women_lawless_fox.pdf.
  • Lawless, J. L., & Fox, R. L. (2013). Girls just wanna not run. Washington, DC: Women & Politics Institute.
  • Lawless, J. L., & Pearson, K. (2008). The primary reason for women’s underrepresentation? Reevaluating the conventional wisdom. The Journal of Politics, 70(1), 67–82. doi:10.1017/S002238160708005X
  • Lay, J. C., Holman, M. R., Bos, A. L., Greenlee, J. S., Oxley, Z. M., Buffett, A., … Al, E. T. (2021). TIME for kids to learn gender stereotypes: Analysis of gender and political leadership in a common social studies resource for children. Politics & Gender, 17(1), 1–22. doi:10.1017/S1743923X19000540
  • Lazarus, J., & Steigerwalt, A. (2018). Gendered vulnerability: How women work harder to stay in office. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
  • Leaper, C. (2014). Do I belong? Gender, peer groups, and STEM achievement. International Journal of Gender, Science, and Technology, 7(2), 167–179.
  • Legewie, J., & DiPrete, T. A. (2014). The high school environment and the gender gap in science and engineering. Sociology of Education, 87(4), 259–280. doi:10.1177/0038040714547770
  • Lei, R. F., Green, E. R., Leslie, S.-J., & Rhodes, M. (2019). Children lose confidence in their potential to “be scientists,” but not in their capacity to “do science.” Developmental Science, 22(6), 1–8. doi:10.1111/desc.12837
  • Leslie, S.-J., Cimpian, A., Meyer, M., & Freeland, E. (2015). Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines. Science, 347(6219), 262–265. doi:10.1126/science.1261375
  • Liben, L. S., & Bigler, R. S. (2002). The developmental course of gender differentiation: Conceptualizing, measuring, and evaluating constructs and pathways. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 67(2), 1–183. doi:10.1111/1540-5834.t01-1-00187
  • Livingston, R. W., Rosette, A. S., & Washington, E. F. (2012). Can an agentic Black woman get ahead? The impact of race and interpersonal dominance on perceptions of female leaders. Psychological Science, 23(4), 354–358. doi:10.1177/0956797611428079
  • Long, M., Boiarsky, G., & Thayer, G. (2001). Gender and racial counter-stereotypes in science education television: A content analysis. Public Understanding of Science, 10(3), 255–269. doi:10.3109/a036869
  • Maloney, E. A., Ramirez, G., Gunderson, E. A., Levine, S. C., & Beilock, S. L. (2015). Intergenerational effects of parents' math anxiety on children's math achievement and anxiety. Psychological Science, 26(9), 1480–1488. doi:10.1177/0956797615592630
  • Maltese, A. V., & Tai, R. H. (2010). Eyeballs in the fridge: Sources of early interest in science. International Journal of Science Education, 32(5), 669–685. doi:10.1080/09500690902792385
  • Maltese, A. V., & Tai, R. H. (2011). Pipeline persistence: Examining the association of educational experiences with earned degrees in STEM among U.S. students. Science Education, 95(5), 877–907. doi:10.1002/sce.20441
  • Margolis, J., Fisher, A., & Miller, F. (2000). The anatomy of interest: Women in undergraduate computer science. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 28(1/2), 104–127.
  • Master, A., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2016). Building bridges between psychological science and education: Cultural stereotypes, STEM, and equity. Prospects, 46(2), 215–234. doi:10.1007/s11125-017-9391-z
  • Master, A., Cheryan, S., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2017). Social group membership increases STEM engagement among preschoolers. Developmental Psychology, 53(2), 201–209. doi:10.1037/dev0000195
  • Master, A., Cheryan, S., Moscatelli, A., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2017). Programming experience promotes higher STEM motivation among first-grade girls. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 160, 92–106. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2017.03.013
  • Maurer, E.L., Patrick, J., Britto, L.M., & Millar, H. (2016). Where are the women? A report on the status of women in the United States social studies standards. National Women’s History Museum. https://www.womenshistory.org/sites/default/files/museum-assets/document/2018-01/NWHM_Status-of-Women-in-State-Social-Studies-Standards.pdf
  • McGlone, M. S., Aronson, J., & Kobrynowicz, D. (2006). Stereotype threat and the gender gap in political knowledge. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30(4), 392–398. doi:10.1111/j.1471-6402.2006.00314.x
  • McKenney, S., & Voogt, J. (2010). Technology and young children: How 4–7 year olds perceive their own use of computers. Computers in Human Behavior, 26(4), 656–664. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2010.01.002
  • Meyer, M., Cimpian, A., & Leslie, S.-J. (2015). Women are underrepresented in fields where success is believed to require brilliance. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(235), 235–212. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00235
  • Milkman, K. L., Akinola, M., & Chugh, D. (2015). What happens before? A field experiment exploring how pay and representation differentially shape bias on the pathway into organizations. The Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(6), 1678–1712. doi:10.1037/apl0000022
  • Miller, D. I., Eagly, A. H., & Linn, M. C. (2015). Women’s representation in science predicts national gender-science stereotypes: Evidence from 66 nations. Journal of Educational Psychology, 107(3), 631–644. doi:10.1037/edu0000005
  • Miller, D. I., Nolla, K. M., Eagly, A. H., & Uttal, D. H. (2018). The development of children's gender-science stereotypes: A meta-analysis of 5 decades of U.S. draw-a-scientist studies. Child Development, 89(6), 1943–1955. doi:10.1111/cdev.13039
  • Miller, D. I., & Wai, J. (2015). The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks more women than men: A 30-year analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(37), 37–10. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00037
  • Mitchell-Walthour, G. L. (2018). Blackness: Racial identity and political behavior in contemporary Brazil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Mo, C. H. (2015). The consequences of explicit and implicit gender attitudes and candidate quality in the calculations of voters. Political Behavior, 37(2), 357–395. doi:10.1007/s11109-014-9274-4
  • Moss-Racusin, C. A., Dovidio, J. F., Brescoll, V. L., Graham, M. J., & Handelsman, J. (2012). Science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(41), 16474–16479. doi:10.1073/pnas.1211286109
  • Muzzatti, B., & Agnoli, F. (2007). Gender and mathematics: Attitudes and stereotype threat susceptibility in Italian children. Developmental Psychology, 43(3), 747–759. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.43.3.747
  • National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine. (2020). Promising practices for addressing the underrepresentation of women in science, engineering, and medicine: Opening doors. Consensus study report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
  • Niven, D. (1998). Party elites and women candidates: The shape of bias. Women & Politics, 19(2), 57–80. doi:10.1300/J014v19n02_03
  • Nosek, B. A., Smyth, F. L., Hansen, J. J., Devos, T., Lindner, N. M., Ranganath, K. A., … Banaji, M. R. (2007). Pervasiveness and correlates of implicit attitudes and stereotypes. European Review of Social Psychology, 18(1), 36–88. doi:10.1080/10463280701489053
  • Nosek, B. A., Smyth, F. L., Sriram, N., Lindner, N. M., Devos, T., Ayala, A., … Greenwald, A. G. (2009). National differences in gender-science stereotypes predict national sex differences in science and math achievement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(26), 10593–10597. doi:10.1073/pnas.0809921106
  • O'Brien, L. T., Blodorn, A., Adams, G., Garcia, D. M., & Hammer, E. (2015). Ethnic variation in gender-STEM stereotypes and STEM participation: An intersectional approach. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 21(2), 169–112. doi:10.1037/a0037944
  • O’Brien, L. T., Hitti, A., Shaffer, E., Van Camp, A. R., Henry, D., & Gilbert, P. N. (2017). Improving girls’ sense of fit in science: Increasing the impact of role models. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(3), 301–309. doi:10.1177/1948550616671997
  • O’Dea, R. E., Lagisz, M., Jennions, M. D., & Nakagawa, S. (2018). Gender differences in individual variation in academic grades fail to fit expected patterns for STEM. Nature Communications, 9(1), 1–8. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06292-0
  • Okazawa-Rey, M., Robinson, T., & Ward, J. V. (1987). Black women and the politics of skin color and hair. Women & Therapy, 6(1–2), 89–102. doi:10.1300/J015V06N01_07
  • Okimoto, T. G., & Brescoll, V. L. (2010). The price of power: Power seeking and backlash against female politicians. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(7), 923–936. doi:10.1177/0146167210371949
  • Oppermann, E., Brunner, M., & Anders, Y. (2019). The interplay between preschool teachers’ science self-efficacy beliefs, their teaching practices, and girls’ and boys’ early science motivation. Learning and Individual Differences, 70, 86–99. doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2019.01.006
  • Parkin, C., & Mackenzie, S. (2017). Is there gender bias in key stage 3 science textbooks?: Content analysis using the Gender Bias 14 (GB14) measurement tool. Advanced Journal of Professional Practice, 1(1), 23–40.
  • Parks-Stamm, E. J., Heilman, M. E., & Hearns, K. A. (2008). Motivated to penalize: Women's strategic rejection of successful women. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 34(2), 237–247. doi:10.1177/0146167207310027
  • Passolunghi, M. C., Rueda Ferreira, T. I., & Tomasetto, C. (2014). Math-gender stereotypes and math-related beliefs in childhood and early adolescence. Learning and Individual Differences, 34, 70–76. doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2014.05.005
  • Pate, J., & Fox, R. (2018). Getting past the gender gap in political ambition. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 156, 166–183. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2018.10.002
  • Patrick, H., Mantzicopoulos, P., & Samarapungavan, A. (2009). Motivation for learning science in kindergarten: Is there a gender gap and does integrated inquiry and literacy instruction make a difference. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 46(2), 166–191. doi:10.1002/tea.20276
  • Patterson, M. M., Bigler, R. S., Pahlke, E., Brown, C. S., Hayes, A. R., Ramirez, M. C., & Nelson, A. (2019). Toward a developmental science of politics. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 84(3), 7–185. doi:10.1111/mono.12410
  • Patterson, M. M., Pahlke, E., & Bigler, R. S. (2013). Witnesses to history: Children’s views of race and the 2008 United States presidential election. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 13(1), 186–210. doi:10.1111/j.1530-2415.2012.01303.x
  • Perry, B. L., Link, T., Boelter, C., & Leukefeld, C. (2012). Blinded to science: Gender differences in the effects of race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status on academic and science attitudes among sixth graders. Gender and Education, 24(7), 725–743. doi:10.1080/09540253.2012.685702
  • Political Parity. (2014). Shifting gears: How women navigate the road to higher office. Retrieved from https://www.politicalparity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Shifting-Gears-Report.pdf.
  • Preece, J. R. (2016). Mind the gender gap: An experiment on the influence of self-efficacy on political interest. Politics & Gender, 12(01), 198–217. doi:10.1017/S1743923X15000628
  • Preece, J. R., & Stoddard, O. (2015). Why women don’t run: Experimental evidence on gender differences in political competition aversion. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 117, 296–308. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2015.04.019
  • Reifen Tagar, M., Hetherington, C., Shulman, D., & Koenig, M. (2017). On the path to social dominance? Individual differences in sensitivity to intergroup fairness violations in early childhood. Personality and Individual Differences, 113, 246–250. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.03.020
  • Rhodes, M., Leslie, S.-J., Yee, K. M., & Saunders, K. (2019). Subtle linguistic cues increase girls' engagement in science. Psychological Science, 30(3), 455–466. doi:10.1177/0956797618823670
  • Ridgeway, C. L. (2001). Gender, status, and leadership. Journal of Social Issues, 57(4), 637–655. doi:10.1111/0022-4537.00233
  • Riegle-Crumb, C., King, B., Grodsky, E., & Muller, C. (2012). The more things change, the more they stay the same? Prior achievement fails to explain gender inequality in entry into STEM college majors over time. American Educational Research Journal, 49(6), 1048–1073. doi:10.3102/0002831211435229
  • Riegle-Crumb, C., Moore, C., & Ramos-Wada, A. (2011). Who wants to have a career in science or math? Exploring adolescents’ future aspirations by gender and race/ethnicity. Science Education, 95(3), 458–476. doi:10.1002/sce.20431
  • Riegle-Crumb, C., & Morton, K. (2017). Gendered expectations: Examining how peers shape female students’ intent to pursue STEM fields. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(329), 329–311. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00329
  • Robinson-Cimpian, J. P., Lubienski, S. T., Ganley, C. M., & Copur-Gencturk, Y. (2014). Teachers' perceptions of students' mathematics proficiency may exacerbate early gender gaps in achievement. Developmental Psychology, 50(4), 1262–1281. doi:10.1037/a0035073
  • Rosette, A. S., Koval, C. Z., Ma, A., & Livingston, R. (2016). Race matters for women leaders: Intersectional effects on agentic deficiencies and penalties. The Leadership Quarterly, 27(3), 429–445. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2016.01.008
  • Rosette, A. S., & Livingston, R. W. (2012). Failure is not an option for Black women: Effects of organizational performance on leaders with single versus dual-subordinate identities. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(5), 1162–1167. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2012.05.002
  • Rudman, L. A. (1998). Self-promotion as a risk factor for women: The costs and benefits of counterstereotypical impression management. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(3), 629–645. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.74.3.629
  • Rudman, L. A., & Glick, P. (1999). Feminized management and backlash toward agentic women: The hidden costs to women of a kinder, gentler image of middle managers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(5), 1004–1010. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.77.5.1004
  • Rudman, L. A., & Phelan, J. E. (2010). The effect of priming gender roles on women’s implicit gender beliefs and career aspirations. Social Psychology, 41(3), 192–202. doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a000027
  • Sanbonmatsu, K. (2006). Do parties know that “women win”? Party leader beliefs about women’s electoral chances. Politics and Gender, 2(4), 431–450. doi:10.1017/S1743923X06060132
  • Sanbonmatsu, K. (2017). Political parity: Research Inventory. Retrieved from https://www.politicalparity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Parity-Research-Full.pdf.
  • Saw, G., Chang, C. N., & Chan, H. Y. (2018). Cross-sectional and longitudinal disparities in STEM career aspirations at the intersection of gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Educational Researcher, 47(8), 525–531. doi:10.3102/0013189X18787818
  • Schmader, T., Johns, M., & Barquissau, M. (2004). The costs of accepting gender differences: The role of stereotype endorsement in women’s experience in the math domain. Sex Roles, 50(11/12), 835–850. doi:10.1023/B:SERS.0000029101.74557.a0
  • Schneider, M. C., & Bos, A. L. (2019). The application of social role theory to the study of gender in politics. Political Psychology, 40(S1), 173–213. doi:10.1111/pops.12573
  • Schneider, M. C., Holman, M. R., Diekman, A. B., & McAndrew, T. (2016). Power, conflict, and community: How gendered views of political power influence women’s political ambition. Political Psychology, 37(4), 515–531. doi:10.1111/pops.12268
  • Schyns, B., Tymon, A., Kiefer, T., & Kerschreiter, R. (2013). New ways to leadership development: A picture paints a thousand words. Management Learning, 44(1), 11–24. doi:10.1177/1350507612456499
  • Scott, K. A., & Brown, D. J. (2006). Female first, leader second? Gender bias in the encoding of leadership behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 101(2), 230–242. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.06.002
  • Shapiro, J. R., & Williams, A. M. (2012). The role of stereotype threats in undermining girls’ and women’s performance and interest in STEM fields. Sex Roles, 66(3–4), 175–183. doi:10.1007/s11199-011-0051-0
  • Sigelman, C. K., Sigelman, L., Thomas, D. B., & Ribich, F. D. (1986). Gender, physical attractiveness, and electability: An experimental investigation of voter biases. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 16(3), 229–248. doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1986.tb01137.x
  • Simon, A. (2017). How can we explain the gender gap in children’s political knowledge? American Behavioral Scientist, 61(2), 222–237. doi:10.1177/0002764216689123
  • Simpkins, S. D., Davis-Kean, P. E., & Eccles, J. S. (2005). Parents’ socializing behavior and children’s participation in math, science, and computer out-of-school activities. Applied Developmental Science, 9(1), 14–30. doi:10.1207/s1532480xads0901_3
  • Smith, J. L., Paul, D., & Paul, R. (2007). No place for a woman: Evidence for gender bias in evaluations of presidential candidates. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 29(3), 225–233. doi:10.1080/01973530701503069
  • Spelke, E. S. (2005). Sex differences in intrinsic aptitude for mathematics and science?: A critical review. American Psychologist, 60(9), 950–958. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.60.9.950
  • Steffens, M. C., Jelenec, P., & Noack, P. (2010). On the leaky math pipeline: Comparing implicit math-gender stereotypes and math withdrawal in female and male children and adolescents. Journal of Educational Psychology, 102(4), 947–963. doi:10.1037/a0019920
  • Steinke, J., Lapinski, M. K., Long, M., Van Der Maas, C., Ryan, L., & Applegate, B. (2009). Seeing oneself as a scientist: Media influences and adolescent girls’ science career-possible selves. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 15(4), 279–301. doi:10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.v15.i4.10
  • Steinke, J., & Long, M. (1996). A lab of her own?: Portrayals of female characters on children’s educational science programs. Science Communication, 18(2), 91–115. doi:10.1177/1075547096018002001
  • Stephens-Davidowitz, S. (2014). Google, tell me. Is my son a genius? New York Times.
  • Storage, D., Horne, Z., Cimpian, A., & Leslie, S.-J. (2016). The frequency of “brilliant” and “genius” in teaching evaluations predicts the representation of women and African Americans across fields. PLOS One, 11(3), e0150194. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150194
  • Sullivan, J., Moss-Racusin, C., Lopez, M., & Williams, K. (2018). Backlash against gender stereotype-violating preschool children. PLOS One, 13(4), e0195503–24. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195503
  • Sweet-Cushman, J. (2019). See it; be it? The use of role models in campaign trainings for women. Politics, Groups, and Identities, 7(4), 853–863. doi:10.1080/21565503.2018.1531771
  • Tai, R. H., Liu, C. Q., Maltese, A. V., & Fan, X. (2006). Planning early for careers in science. Science, 312(5777), 1143–1144. doi:10.1126/science.1128690
  • Teele, D. L., Kalla, J., & Rosenbluth, F. (2018). The ties that double bind: Social roles and women’s underrepresentation in politics. American Political Science Review, 112(3), 525–541. doi:10.1017/S0003055418000217
  • Tenenbaum, H. R., & Leaper, C. (2003). Parent-child conversations about science: The socialization of gender inequities? Developmental Psychology, 39(1), 34–47. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.39.1.34
  • Tiedemann, J. (2000). Gender-related beliefs of teachers in elementary school mathematics. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 41(2), 191–207. doi:10.1023/A:1003953801526
  • Trumpy, A. J., & Elliott, M. (2019). You lead like a girl: Gender and children’s leadership development. Sociological Perspectives, 62(3), 346–365. doi:10.1177/0731121418808800
  • Upadyaya, K., & Eccles, J. S. (2014). How do teachers’ beliefs predict children’s interest in math from kindergarten to sixth grade? Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 60(4), 403–430. doi:10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.60.4.0403
  • Verba, S., Burns, N., & Schlozman, K. L. (1997). Knowing and caring about politics: Gender and political engagement. The Journal of Politics, 59(4), 1051–1072. doi:10.2307/2998592
  • Vial, A. C., Napier, J. L., & Brescoll, V. L. (2016). A bed of thorns: Female leaders and the self-reinforcing cycle of illegitimacy. The Leadership Quarterly, 27(3), 400–414. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2015.12.004
  • Victory Institute. (2019). Out for America 2019: A census of out LGBTQ elected officials nationwide. Retrieved from https://victoryinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Victory-Institute-Out-for-America-Report-2019.pdf.
  • Walton, G. M., & Wilson, T. D. (2018). Wise interventions: Psychological remedies for social and personal problems. Psychological Review, 125(5), 617–655. doi:10.1037/rev0000115
  • Wang, M.-T., & Degol, J. (2013). Motivational pathways to STEM career choices: Using expectancy-value perspective to understand individual and gender differences in STEM fields. Developmental Review, 33(4), 304–340. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2013.08.001
  • Weisgram, E. S., & Bigler, R. S. (2007). Effects of learning about gender discrimination on adolescent girls’ attitudes toward and interest in science. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 31(3), 262–269. doi:10.1111/j.1471-6402.2007.00369.x
  • Williams, M. J., & Tiedens, L. Z. (2016). The subtle suspension of backlash: A meta-analysis of penalties for women’s implicit and explicit dominance behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 142(2), 165–197. doi:10.1037/bul0000039
  • Wolak, J., & McDevitt, M. (2011). The roots of the gender gap in political knowledge in adolescence. Political Behavior, 33(3), 505–533. doi:10.1007/s11109-010-9142-9
  • Wolbrecht, C., & Campbell, D. E. (2007). Leading by example: Female members of Parliament as political role models. American Journal of Political Science, 51(4), 921–939. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2007.00289.x
  • World Economic Forum. (2020). Global gender gap report 2020. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2020.pdf
  • Wray-Lake, L., Arruda, E. H., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2020). Civic development across the transition to adulthood in a national U.S. sample: Variations by race/ethnicity, parent education, and gender. Developmental Psychology, 56(10), 1948–1967. doi:10.1037/dev0001101
  • Yoder, J. B., & Mattheis, A. (2016). Queer in STEM: Workplace experiences reported in a national survey of LGBTQA individuals in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers. Journal of Homosexuality, 63(1), 1–27. doi:10.1080/00918369.2015.1078632
  • Zenger Folkman. (2015). A study in leadership: Women do it better than men. In Hurley, K. & Shumway, P. (Eds.), Real women, real leaders: Surviving and Succeeding in the Business World. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ. pp. 165–172.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.