Machine generated contents note: 1. Brainsex and occupation / Ernest Govier -- 2. Gender and subject choice in secondary education / Ann Colley -- 3. Using stereotypes to dispel negative perceptions of careers in science and technology / Alan Durndell / Pauline Lightbody -- 4. ratio of male to female undergraduates / Leonard Holdstock -- 5. Entering Higher Education: older students' constructions of self as learners / Estelle King -- 6. Gender issues in employment selection / Neil Scott / Paul Creighton -- 7. Choice: can we choose it? / Pauline Anderson -- 8. equal chance to succeed? Comparing women and men in management / Viki Holton -- 9. Why can't a woman be more like a man, or vice versa? / John Radford
Summary
Despite many years of equality of choice, boys and girls continue to differ in both the subjects they study at school and later in the careers they decide to pursue. In this collection of papers by leading researchers from academic and practitioner backgrounds, the current evidence from a range of fields is reviewed. Drawing on both their own original research and that of others, the contributors consider topics as diverse as subject choice in secondary school, differences in brain functions between the sexes, the comparison of men and women in management and recruiting women to science and te
