Flutterby™! : Gendered education and test taking

“Picture yourself as a stereotypical male”:

As it turns out, there is zero statistically significant gender difference in mental rotation ability after test-takers are asked to imagine themselves as stereotypical men for a few minutes. None. An entire standard deviation of female underperformance is negated on this condition, just as a man’s performance is slightly hindered if he instead imagines himself as a woman. (well then.)

NY Times: How Elementary School Teachers’ Biases Can Discourage Girls From Math and Science. In Israel:

In math, the girls outscored the boys in the exam graded anonymously, but the boys outscored the girls when graded by teachers who knew their names.

But studies in the U.S. suggest similar effects.