title: WOMEN IN SCIENCE. Comment on "Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines".
abstract: Leslie et al. (Reports, 16 January 2015, p. 262) concluded that "expectations of brilliance" explained the gender makeup of academic disciplines. We reestimated their models after adding measures of disaggregated Graduate Record Examination scores by field. Our results indicated that female representation among Ph.D. recipients is associated with the field's mathematical content and that faculty beliefs about innate ability were irrelevant.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, Center for Science, Technology and Economic Policy, Institute for Policy and Social Research, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. dginther@ku.edu.
authors.forename: Donna K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Ginther
authors.affiliation: Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
authors.forename: Shulamit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kahn
mesh_terms: D001076:Aptitude; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D010811:Natural Science Disciplines; D063507:Sexism; D012942:Social Sciences; D000078329:Workforce