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In the afternoon, my circle of friends was once again flooded with beautiful scientist Yan Ning .
Today, at the Global Innovation Talent Forum held in Shenzhen, the famous structural biologist Yan Ning announced that he will resign from his teaching position at Princeton University and become the founding dean of the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences.
#1
Dr Xiaoyu
Yan Ning is a scientist that everyone is very familiar with and admires.
Her reputation is not only because of her excellent academic achievements, but also because in the scientific community where the majority of males, she is dazzling as a very small number of young women in .
Girls are generally considered to be "weak in science".
Even if a girl is a top student, she will always hear others say since she was a child:
Boys have great potential, and girls will struggle to study science when they arrive in high school.
, and Yan Ning used his actual actions to crush the stereotype of girls who "can't do science" .
Yan Ning in high school had a dream of a writer and wanted to study liberal arts, but he followed his parents' advice and studied science. So he was invincible all the way and became a professor and doctoral supervisor at at the age of 30.
Check out her golden resume.
Graduated from Tsinghua University in 2000, and graduated from Princeton University with a doctorate from 2004. From 2005 to 2007, he was engaged in postdoctoral research in the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University.
In 2007, Yan Ning, who was only 30 years old, served as a professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University.
In April 2017, Yan Ning left Tsinghua University and became the first tenured professor of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University.
was elected as a foreign academician of National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
was elected as a foreign academician of American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.
In 2022, Yan Ning once again made a bold decision:
returned home full time and went to Shenzhen to establish the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Although the female scientist Yan Ning is so powerful, I believe that many people will say, "This is a minority after all, and most girls are indeed not good at science."
Today, I want to discuss a question with you:
Are girls really not good at science?
This problem has troubled countless parents of junior high school girls.
Why do so many girls who are smart, obedient, well-behaved, and have excellent learning habits gradually fade when they arrive in junior high school and high school?
#2
Dr Xiaoyu
Mathematical gender differences have always been a hot topic.
In the first two years, an article analyzed data from 32 countries and regions around the world and explored the gender differences between "mathematics self-concept" and "mathematics scores" .
The so-called "mathematical self-concept" refers to a person's self-knowledge of his own mathematical ability .
means how confident in mathematics.
Global data shows that boys have much higher self-confidence in mathematics than girls, but there is no significant difference in math scores between the two. What does
mean?
means that all the boys who surveyed generally think that they are very good at math, while girls think that they are very ordinary in math.
But their math scores are no different at all.
In other words, boys generally overestimate their mathematical abilities, while girls generally underestimate their mathematical abilities. This conclusion is in line with the situation in most countries.
, but there are exceptions in a few countries!
There are only a few women in a few countries around the world who have higher mathematical self-confidence than men.
Among the countries where women have higher self-confidence in mathematics than men, the number one ranks first is Saudi Arabia ! Is
very surprising?
What country is Saudi ?
A woman must wear a black veil when she goes out, and a man will marry four wives. Domestic violence is not illegal! A country known as "the most boys in the world."
Saudi street
Looking at the table above carefully, it is simply incredible. Women whose mathematical self-concept is higher than that of men are basically Muslim countries.
The more amazing result is that Muslim women not only feel good at math skills, but their math scores are also much higher than those of men.
So, the question is here!
Why do girls feel that their math skills are much higher than men and their math scores are much better in Muslim countries with very low status in women?
#3
Dr Xiaoyu
article authors have conducted research on this result again.
He found that in Muslim countries, boys and girls are quarantined for religious reasons.
Girls in pure girls’ schools are better than girls in math, science, space flip imagination, etc.
Why?
Because, in schools where boys and girls are mixed, people always compare girls with boys, and girls always hear:
Girls are not good at science, and girls are not as good as boys' science thinking, so the stereotype that girls "lose at the starting line" in science studies.
In pure girls' schools in Muslim countries, teachers, classmates, and parents will not compare girls with boys, and they rarely hear others say "girls can't learn science."
Therefore, they are less affected by this "gender stereotype", which makes them much higher in math self-confidence and grades than other countries around the world.
The world's first woman to win a Fields mathematician is also from the Muslim country - Iran.
The first woman to win the Fields Mathematics Award: Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani
So the conclusion is that girls generally have poor science scores. The reason why it is difficult to go to high school science is caused by "gender stereotypes".
It is precisely because parents and teachers often say that girls are not good at science, and they are worried that girls will not take science when they go to high school, which makes girls’ science really not good.
Therefore, when everyone admires Yan Ning, praise the girls around you more.
Parents, if you hope that girls can learn science well in high school and engage in science and engineering in the future, then tell her since childhood: You will definitely be able to learn science well. There is no difference between girls and boys in science thinking.
does not use gender stereotypes to limit girls' development potential.
