And the results were dramatic. They gave us a clear answer. Among participants who were told the test did show gender differences, where the women could still feel the threat of stigma confirmation, women did worse than equally skilled men, just as in the earlier experiment. But among participants who were told the test did not show gender differences, where the women were free of confirming anything about being a woman, woman performed at the same high level as equally skilled men. Their underperformance was gone.*
Wait. I thought the control was going to that they weren’t told anything about gender and test performance. The control should’ve been more similar to normal math test conditions (no mention of gender), right?
