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