Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ellison said he sees the phenomenon as part of the same nationwide pattern in which women tend to score lower on the math portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test than their male counterparts...
Deborah Hughes Hallett, the only woman on the Subcommittee on Quantitative Reasoning, points toward societal factors that have pushed women away from math...
...would say that for doing math well, having confidence has a lot to do with it, giving you the ability to concentrate so you can get through a difficult problem," said Hughes Hallett, who is professor of the practice in the teaching of mathematics...
...little comments that society makes that are not devastating, but tend to chip away the confidence, leading to a vicious cycle that causes women to turn away from math," she said...
...private life? A normally expansive man, his verbal pace slows to a crawl when describing details of his first marriage and its dissolution. (He has since remarried.) "I don't talk about it much," he told TIME. "I met my ex-wife when she was my high school math teacher . . . at Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia." Married after his freshman year at Emory University, he says what he calls the "random accident" of their getting together "seemed to make sense at the time. I can't look back badly, from the standpoint that I have two wonderful daughters whom...