Factors affecting female students in physical science careers


Factors that affect the physical science career interest of female students: Testing five common hypotheses

 Abstract Excerpt:
"There are many hypotheses regarding factors that may encourage female students to pursue careers in the physical sciences. Using multivariate matching methods on national data drawn from the Persistence Research in Science and Engineering (PRiSE) project (n ¼ 7505), we test the following five commonly held beliefs regarding what factors might impact females’ physical science career interest: (i) having a single-sex physics class, (ii) having a female physics teacher..."

Factors that affect the physical science career interest of female students:  Testing five common hypotheses - Hazari et al.

Direct URL:  http://journals.aps.org/prstper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.9.020115

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