Gifted Girls Did you know... Gifted girls receive the least attention from teachers. Girls who are gifted in math and science are much less likely than boys to pursue scientific careers. Only 29% of girls want to be scientists versus 52% of boys. Women constitute over 45% of the workforce, but only 7.6% of the engineers. Some 94.2% of registered nurses are women while only 17.9% are physicians. Gifted girls initially have equal scores on achievement tests, but by the time …showed first 75 words of 708 total…

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