Education plays an irreplaceable role in forming the future paths of people. Thus, tracking back gender bias in school can help explain the unbalanced gender distribution in certain areas. ( eg. STEM workers, high-income groups, etc.)

 

In school, girls are generally treated with different (https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(17)30355-5/fulltext) expectations than boys. For example, girls are subtly told they are more vulnerable than boys, blocking some girls’ passion for adventure at a young age. And girls in adolescence are often viewed to dress nice or sexy to attract male attention. This kind of stereotype leads girls to consider themselves weaker than boys. It affects how they act in classrooms, pick courses, and eventually impact their profession or career choices.

 

Some teachers also hold stereotypical expectations for girls. Some of them think certain fields are only mastered by boys, leading to a discouragement effect ( https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.440) on girls. Some girls feel discouraged when they are rivaling with boys. The discouragement affects some of them when taking future professions.

 

Furthermore, gender bias appears in some textbooks (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11125-009-9086-1).

For example, in most textbooks for middle school in China, nurses are female, and doctors are male. That kind of bias imperceptibly immerses in people’s brains, bringing negative effects on females. In addition, fairy tales preschool children read, movies, and contents on social media(http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/genderbias.pdf) also impose gender bias in school and on girls.

教育在构建人们未来的道路中起着不可替代的作用。因此，追溯学校中的性别偏见可以帮助解释某些地区性别分布的不平衡。(如：在STEM工作者、高收入群体中等)

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在学校里，女孩通常受到与男孩不同的期望。例如，女孩被微妙地告知她们比男孩更脆弱，这在很小的时候就阻碍了一些女孩对冒险的热情。青春期的女孩常被视作为了吸引男性的注意才穿得漂亮或性感，这种刻板印象会让女孩认为自己比男孩弱势，影响她们在课堂上的表现，怎样选课，并最终影响她们的职业或职业选择。

 

一些老师也对女孩抱有刻板印象。他们中的一些人认为某些领域只有男孩才能精通，这导致了对女孩的打击。有些女孩在与男孩竞争时感到气馁。这种挫折感影响了她们中的一些人未来的职业选择。

 

此外，一些教科书中也出现了性别偏见。例如，在中国的大多数中学教科书中，护士是女性，而医生是男性。这种偏见潜移默化地存在于人们的大脑中，给女性负面影响。此外，学龄前儿童读的童话故事、电影、社交媒体上的内容也会女孩带来性别偏见。