Scholars blame parenting for gender gap in STEM, call for govt intervention

They recommend ‘parental guidance campaigns to design inclusive structured activities’ for children Parenting could be partially to blame for the persistent gender gap in fields like science and technology, according to two British economics professors. And government intervention may be needed, they wrote in an article published Tuesday at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. “Policymakers may need to move beyond promoting formal equality and focus on family, community, and school interventions that encourage mixed-gender interactions,” University of Warwick Professors Manuel Bagues (pictured left) and Natalia Zinovyeva (pictured right) wrote....