Three years after Harvard president Lawrence Summers got into trouble for questioning women's 'intrinsic aptitude' for science and engineering - and 16 years after the talking Barbie doll proclaimed that 'maths class is tough' - the study paid for by the National Science Foundation has found that girls perform as well as boys in standardised maths tests.
Although high school boys performed better than girls in mathematics 20 years ago, the researchers found that is no longer the case.
The reason, they said, is simple: Girls used to take fewer advanced maths courses than boys, but now they are taking just as many.
'Now that enrolment in advanced maths courses is equalised, we don't see gender differences in test performance,' said Ms Marcia Linn of the University of California, Berkeley, a co-author of the study.
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