MAY 3, 2012
All-Female Groups Boost Girls' Willingness to Compete !
Adolescent girls were 16 percentage points more likely to enter a maze-solving tournament if they were in an all-female group, according to an experiment by Alison Booth and Patrick Nolen of the University of Essex in the UK and Australian National University. The study, which also shows that girls from single-sex schools choose to enter tournaments more than girls from coed schools, suggests that a girl's environment plays an important role in explaining whether she chooses to compete, the authors say.
Source: Choosing to compete: How different are girls and boys?
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