Psychology class: ‘Gender numeracy gap’ is hitting women’s earnings power

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‘Gender numeracy gap’ is hitting women’s earnings power

• Explain the term ‘modelling’ in the context of gender development

• Referring to the article, suggest how social learning theory could explain the gender gap in numeracy confidence

• Suggest how psychodynamic approaches could be used to explain the gender gap in numeracy confidence

• Referring to the article, discuss the impact of gender research and/or theory on the economy

• The article cites research that found that women consistently report less number confidence than men.

  a) Suggest how research might operationalise ‘number confidence’

  b) Explain one strength and one limitation of using self-report methods to investigate number confidence

Danny Galbraith, St Bartholomew’s School