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“Stoet and Geary (2015) further note that stratification hypotheses”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluential
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“Women demonstrated better maintenance and processing of social support, and some studies have also indicated their superior academic achievement (Belle, 1991; Stoet & Geary, 2015; Voyer & Voyer, 2014).”
Result
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“By contrast, girls, on average, showed higher performance in reading than in math and science in all countries (Stoet & Geary, 2015).”
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“Gender differences have been found to be a factor in educational achievement (Duckworth and Seligman 2006, Pekkarinen 2012, Stoet and Geary 2015, Voyer and Voyer 2014), as well as in test-taking motivation (DeMars, Bashkov and Socha 2013) and in social desirability with regard to questionnaire…”
Background
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“However, since there is much debate in the literature about these kind of sex differences (Miller & Hapern, 2014; Stoet & Geary, 2015), and since these sex differences did not occur across the board in this study, these results should be interpreted with caution and further research investigating…”
Result
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“Whereas most studies find higher performance in boys (Diamantopoulou, Pina, Valero-Garcia, González-Salinas, & Fuentes, 2012; Stoet & Geary, 2015), others have found that girls outperform boys in curriculum-based measurements (Yarbrough, Cannon, Bergman, Kidder-Ashley, & McCane-Bowling, 2017), and…”
MethodResult
Gender differences in mathematics outcomes at different levels of locality to inform policy and practice
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“In contrast, recent few studies (e.g. Ireson, 2017; Stoet and Geary, 2015, 2018), claimed that there is no significant correlation between mathematics attainment and a gender biased environment drawing on national measures (i.e. PISA and the Global Gender Gap Index respectively).”
Result
Sex differences in first graders' literacy skills are mediated by parental input
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“…severe longlasting impairments, together with the historically recent educational falling back in boys compared to girls (Huttenlocher et al. 1991; Stoet and Geary 2015; Tomblin et al. 1997), could reflect broader differences in biological maturational courses and, in turn, differential…”
Background
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“…favored boys, but as girls’ school performance has improved relative to boys both in the united States (DiPrete & Buchmann, 2013) and internationally (Stoet & geary, 2015, 2018, 2020), this position has shifted, with scholars now wondering if schools might favor girls (Rosin, 2012; Tyre, 2008).”
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“…in patterns predicted by evolutionary theories, in particular those related to differential parental investment, costly signaling, and mate selection (e.g., Buss and Shackelford 2008; Stoet and Geary 2015; Verweij et al. 2016; Wåhlin-Jacobsen et al. 2015; for reviews, see Buss 2003; Schmitt 2005).”
Background
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“Nonetheless, they found that while boys fell behind across subjects, it was the opposite for the children at the high tail-end of the distribution, where boys did better (Stoet & Geary, 2015).”
Background
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“In Finland, sex differences have been slightly larger than average (between d = .18 and d = .28; Stoet & Geary, 2015).”
Background
Gender Dimensions of Inequality in the Countries of Central Asia, South Caucasus, and Western CISPreprint
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Authors: Stoet, G., & Geary, D. C.
Affiliations: University of Glasgow (GB)
University of Missouri (US)
Corresponding author: Stoet, Gijsbert
ORCID: Stoet, Gijsbert
Geary, David C.
Venue: Intelligence
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2015-01
Volume: 48
Pages: 137-151
ISSN: 0160-2896 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2014.11.006
OpenAlex: W1969032653
Cited by: 227
References: 88
Citations by year: 2026: 7 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 71 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 5
FWCI: 18.12
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Intelligence (publishedVersion)
Open Access at Essex (University of Essex) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
Keywords: gender equality, PISA, mathematics achievement, girls' academic performance, political equality, economic equality, women's underrepresentation in leadership

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