Gender bias at school: How do students picture a mathematician?

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published February 10, 2023

An international study has revealed the existing gender biases in classrooms, with students associating maths teachers with females and mathematicians with males.

The research showed that more than half of students (58.6 per cent) depicted maths teacher as being female, but ...

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