[Republic If You Can Keep It]

This is an old stereotype that is false

Actually it's true. Boys beat girls every year in the math SATs......no exceptions.

8 times as many boys get perfect SATs as girls.

At the university level, males make up the vast majority of math, physics & engineering majors. It isn't even close.

[mathluv]

What is true is that girls are not encouraged to do the 'hard' subjects. It is not the ability, it is the lack of ever being encouraged to try. (future soccer moms)