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    Gender gap in STEM fields could be due to girls' reading skills, not math ability

    by Stephanie De Marco, Los Angeles Times Jul 29, 2019 4 minutes

    Why don't more girls grow up to become scientists and engineers? It's not that they're bad at math, a new study argues. It's that they're even better at reading.

    This comparative advantage in reading is the primary reason why women are outnumbered by men in technical fields, according to a report published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

    The study authors, economists Thomas Breda of the Paris School of Economics and Clotilde Napp of the French National Center for Scientific Research, came to this conclusion by analyzing survey data from 300,000 high school students in 64 countries around the

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