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[00:07.104]Girls  worse  at  Math?No  Way,New  Analisis  shows
[00:10.200]girls  can  do  just  as  well  at  math  as  boys-even  at  the  genius  level--if
[00:14.262]they  are  given  the  same  opportunities,and  encouragement,researchers  reported
[00:17.956]recently.their  study,pulished  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  National  Academy  of
[00:21.332]Sciences,contradicts  studies  showing  girls  can  do  as  well  as  boys  on  average
[00:25.356]in  math-but  cannot  excel  in  the  way  males  can.
[00:28.854]they  also  said  it  is  a  clear  rebutta  to  Larry  Summers,who  as  presdent  of
[00:32.955]Harvard  University  said  in 2005that  biologcal  differences  could  explain  why
[00:39.171]fewer  women  became  professors  of  mathematcs."we  conclude  that  gender  linequality
[00:44.603],not  lack  of  nnate  apility  or  intrinsic  apitude,is  the  primary  reason  fewer
[00:48.759]femaes  than  males  are  identified  as  excelling  in  mathematics  performance  in
[00:52.319]most  countries,including  the  United  States,"Janet  hyde  and  Janet  mertz  of  the
[00:57.369]University  of  Wisconin  in  Madison  wrote  in  their  report.