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“100 Percent Is Overrated”

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“100 Percent Is Overrated,” James Hamlin, June 30, 2015, the Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/06/the-s-word/397205/

[James Hamlin reports on a talk by Jo Boaler, professor of mathematics education at Stanford University, at the Aspen Ideas Festival.  Boaler suggests that telling children they are “smart,” instead of that they did well, makes them risk-averse:  making mistakes would mean they are not “smart” instead of that they have a chance to learn.  Boaler believes that high-achieving girls are particularly affected by this “fixed-mindset thinking,” which makes them especially vulnerable to societal messages that girls will not be good at math and sciences.]

“Women and Academic Conferences”

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“Women and Academic Conferences,” Dr. Hannah Dugdale, July 30 2013, WAMC Northwest Radio

http://wamc.org/post/dr-hannah-dugdale-university-sheffield-women-and-academic-conferences#stream/0

[This 1-minute podcast reports on a study of why relatively few women academicians appear on programs as invited speakers in science conferences. The researchers determined that as many women as men were invited, but almost twice as many women as men declined the invitations.]