In the article “ Women are Underrepresented in Fields Where Success is believed to Require Brilliance,” psychologist Meredith Meyer and her colleagues conducted two studies of fields thought to require “raw talent.” The fields that were thought to require “raw talent” indeed had a significant decrease of numbers of females in them compared to other fields that were not thought to require “raw talent.” This raises the question to how people think about a given field and the number of genders based on whether ‘talent’ is thought to have. It is quite sad to think that a field may be dominated by a gender based on how people perceive it and think about it. This way of thinking may affect a women’s decision to pursue a career in a field where it is thought to possess “raw talent.” This idea contributes to why there continues to be a decrease of numbers of women in STEM and how one thinks about certain STEM field can ultimately define what one will end up
In the article “ Women are Underrepresented in Fields Where Success is believed to Require Brilliance,” psychologist Meredith Meyer and her colleagues conducted two studies of fields thought to require “raw talent.” The fields that were thought to require “raw talent” indeed had a significant decrease of numbers of females in them compared to other fields that were not thought to require “raw talent.” This raises the question to how people think about a given field and the number of genders based on whether ‘talent’ is thought to have. It is quite sad to think that a field may be dominated by a gender based on how people perceive it and think about it. This way of thinking may affect a women’s decision to pursue a career in a field where it is thought to possess “raw talent.” This idea contributes to why there continues to be a decrease of numbers of women in STEM and how one thinks about certain STEM field can ultimately define what one will end up