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Quartz: Girls? math scores suffer when they grow up in families biased towards sons
21 October 2019
A team that included two Northwestern researchers - Sapienza and David Figlio, dean of the School of Education and Social Policy—conducted two analyses to examine whether a family’s attitude toward boys and girls could impact their daughters’ performance in math. The research team also included Gaia Dossi of the London School of Economics and Paola Giuliano of UCLA's Anderson School.