#  “The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM”? The GenderSci Lab Questions the Data  

 





February 12, 2020

 

 

 This week the Harvard GenderSci Lab published a commentary questioning the results in a 2018 *Psychological Science* paper on the "gender-equality paradox in STEM." The Lab attempted to replicate the study's data and was unable to do so. What conclusions did the Lab draw next? Read their [article](https://slate.com/technology/2020/02/women-stem-innate-disinterest-debunked.html?fbclid=IwAR3vX3r8KXOqyAsOT84nku5XogCmb7TMeTW8wBIRhZ08Qbpo3cyZmmW3DFg) in *Slate*, blog [post](https://www.genderscilab.org/blog/the-gendersci-lab-takes-on-the-gender-equality-paradox-hypothesis-introduction-and-primer?fbclid=IwAR0ujHYeno9cr0zC3QmYReOAefZLgX6Pli2VGOBJcl1cBopI9IeFr22hMd4), and [peer-reviewed Commentary](https://scholar.harvard.edu/srichard/publications/there-gender-equality-paradox-science-technology-engineering-and-math-stem) to find out.

 [The Harvard GenderSci Lab](https://www.genderscilab.org/) is an interdisciplinary group of scientists and gender studies scholars which includes WGS faculty member Sarah Richardson, lecturer Nicole Noll, and WGS affiliates Meredith Reiches and Heather Shaddock-Heidorn.



 

 

 



 

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