First BBL talk

Fateme, Mahdikhanysarvejahany, University of Arizona

When

Noon – 1 p.m., Oct. 16, 2019

Where

I will talk about this amazing paper published in nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-019-0059-x

Analysing gender gap in physics in different countries and possible reasons.

Here there are some highlights of the paper:

*“My theory is that as the status of the field has increased, the number of women has gone down,” McCullough 

**A 2017 study2 found that 6-year-old girls already avoid activities said to be for “really, really smart” children, and they’re less likely than boys to associate members of their gender with that trait