That is, if you are male. Here is a great study from UC-Davis documenting the significant effect professor gender has on female students’ performance in physics:

http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/scarrell/gender.pdf

Since there is not much I can do about being a dude, then I have to find other ways to reduce the gender gap in my courses. Akira Miyake at the University of Colorado proposes values affirmation:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6008/1234.abstract

Surprise! Noah Finkelstein is on this paper. Is it me, or does it seem like he’s on EVERY physics education research paper that has come out in the last few years?

3 Responses to “How your courses could be hurting female physics students”

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  2. on 08 Jun 2011 at 2:23 pmKati

    Thanks for the paper!
    K in Los Angeles
    Physics Graduate Student

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