"You are talented, capable boys.
While capable of boy craziness, they concentrate on friendship and creative fulfillment.
While I'll never watch Focus again, the eminently less capable The Boy Next Door (Universal, 18), looks to be a renewable trash treasure for years to come.
Girls, however, were not as capable as boys in their retrieval of answers to arithmetic problems from memory.
Daughters who were considered by themselves or their mothers to be as capable as boys risked paying a heavy price as more or less grotesque social misfits.
And before administering tests, studies have shown, when girls are reminded that they are equally as capable of boys, performance differences disappear – a sign, some argue, of how powerful girls themselves react to the stereotype.
Many of them have joined forces to endorse campaigns such as Pink Stinks and Let Toys Be Toys, which try to persuade retailers that offering piles of exclusively pink toys and "princess" clothing to girls might discourage them from thinking they are just as capable as boys of being rocket scientists… or even politicians.
Attracting more U.S. women into science will require a change in the culture that assumes girls are less capable than boys of doing science and entering the profession.
"There are cultural biases that hold that science is the domain of males and that it is not important for girls' future lives and that girls are not as capable as boys when it comes to science learning".
My family and the Indian middle class society placed the highest value on education in math and science as a path away from poverty, and there was always a sense that girls were equally as capable as boys.
Cultural biases hold that science is a male domain and that girls are not as capable as boys when it comes to learning about it (Ekine, Abay. Enhancing Girls Participationn in Science in Nigeria).
