These results suggest that eliminating stereotype threat prior to taking mathematical tests can help women perform better.
According to Paul R. Sackett, Chaitra M. Hardison, and Michael J. Cullen, both the media and scholarly literature have wrongly concluded that eliminating stereotype threat could completely eliminate differences in test performance between European-American and African-American individuals.
In subsequent correspondence between Sackett et al. and Steele and Aronson, Sackett et al. wrote that "They [Steele and Aronson] agree that it is a misinterpretation of the Steele and Aronson (1995) results to conclude that eliminating stereotype threat eliminates the African American-White test-score gap".
Such writing tasks appear effective in reducing or eliminating stereotype threat for African Americans (Cohen et al., 2006; Walton and Cohen, 2007) and women (Martens et al., 2006; Miyake et al., 2010), with effects that may persist over time (Cohen et al., 2009; Walton and Cohen, 2011).
It is necessary to keep on providing accurate information about AIDS to eliminate stereotypes and design prevention programs that reduce the illusion of invulnerability and the perception of control.
In those cases, the Court has consistently recognized that the judicious use of race as one factor among many admission criteria can play an important role in universities' efforts to enroll talented students from all backgrounds, promote intercultural understanding, eliminate stereotypes, and cultivate leaders for our multiracial society.
"People who want to eliminate stereotypes are missing the point".
The simple act of hiring women into leadership positions isn't enough to eliminate stereotypes.
"We also had to make sure that the course literature reflected what programming is today, and make sure to eliminate stereotypes such as that programmers are nerds, have dry humour or that they are lazy," Bälter added.
