A.   the pressure leads to women doing better.

B.   that it helps students focus on completing cognitively demanding tasks.

C.   that it takes away mental energy needed to complete cognitively demanding tasks.

D.   the person scoring the test relies on stereotypes rather than the actual answers.

A.   they scored the same as male students.

B.   their scores went down.

C.   they quit the test halfway through.

D.   their scores went up.

A.   men are afraid that they will commit sexual harassment without realizing it.

B.   it contributes to domain disengagement from math and science.

C.   girls score higher on math tests than boys.

D.   women don’t want to be considered manly for liking math and science.

A.   if students feel more positively toward their teachers they will do better in the class.

B.   people with more pessimistic personalities do better on exams.

C.   people with more positive outlooks do worse on exams.

D.   having unrealistically positive views of yourself motivates effort and persistence on challenging tasks.

A.   the fact that boys are exceeding girls in AP test scores across all subject areas.

B.   the large numbers of girls who drop out of high school compared to boys.

C.   the fact that boy are less likely to graduate, have lower GPAs, and are more likely to be disciplined in school than girls.

D.   the lower rates of college enrollment for girls than for boys.

A.   putting minimal effort into school.

B.   competing to be at the top of their class.

C.   valuing an education over money.

D.   working hard to get into college.

A.   commonsense

B.   getting a good white collar job

C.   a college education

D.   book smarts

A.   stayed about the same

B.   become an irrelevant measure

C.   decreased significantly

D.   increased significantly

A.   75% male.

B.   50% female.

C.   75% female.

D.   99% male.

A.   these jobs are primarily being filled by college-educated men.

B.   there are not enough men of working age to fill all the new jobs.

C.   These jobs have high concentrations of women since they represent formerly unpaid tasks historically performed by women.

D.   highly educated women are filling these jobs.

A.   employers make hiring decisions at random so as to not discriminate.

B.   employers make assumptions about how workers will perform based on the groups to which they belong.

C.   employers have a certain number of jobs that they must fill with a female candidate.

D.   employers have a certain number of jobs that they must fill with a candidate who is a person of color.

A.   when the field grows so fast and cannot keep up with demand for workers.

B.   when large number of men enter it.

C.   when large numbers of women enter it.

D.   when the supply of workers outpaces demand for the product.

A.   the majority of women are still stay-at-home mothers.

B.   companies are afraid of reverse discrimination lawsuits.

C.   job growth overall has slowed.

D.   women have crossed into male-dominated fields, but men have yet to move into female-dominated fields in similar numbers.

A.   they made up the majority of computer hardware engineers.

B.   of their greater attention to detail and patience.

C.   of their general anti-social tendencies.

D.   they were considered creative risk-takers.

A.   women on average prefer people to things.

B.   they are told that computer engineering is not “for girls.”

C.   they face discrimination in the hiring process.

D.   many tech companies have a toxic culture of sexual harassment against women.

A.   how women who report sexual harassment are silenced and retaliated against.

B.   how seriously large companies take women’s safety.

C.   how the legal system works to remove sexual harassers immediately.

D.   given the benefit of the doubt when they report sexual harassment.