Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology, said "We have similar types of data that show that women have fear of success, so that in competitive situations they pull back. They're more interested in interpersonal relationships than men...
Coordinators of the study distributed questionnaires to 2076 women and 1271 men undergraduates at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Wellesley College, Barnard College, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, and Brown University...
Forty-six per cent of the women and 54 per cent of the men surveyed said they thought they would hold a doctorate; 49 percent of the women and 61 per cent of the men said they were confident they were well prepared for graduate or professional school...
...study found that women enjoy their courses more than men, and that they enjoyed doing both the required and the optional reading more than their male counterparts...
...Barbara Lazarus, the study's coordinator at Wellesley, said that the study findings "reverse the old stereotype of women as grade-grubbers." Lazarus said women proved to be "more loose and enthusiastic" about their work than men...