Research Says by Age 6 Girls Feel Less ‘Smart’ than Boys
According to a new study published in the journal Science, by the age of 6, girls believe that boys are better suited for “really, really smart” activities- over their own gender. While at age 5 girls see themselves as being just as capable as their male counterparts, by age 6 they begin “perceiving their own gender differently”. In one test, researchers told the children a story about a person who was “really, really smart”: Leaving out clues about gender, at age 5, boys and girls picked out characters of their own gender but at 6 though boys still picked...
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