Results of Yale University's Implicit Assumption Test (IAT)

On the gender test I received a score of: "You have a moderate automatic preference between females and science." That score places me in the 3% of those who have taken the test who believe the same as me. This number is alarming for many reasons. Not only does it display the perceived gender gap in the sciences and liberal arts, it can be applied to many jobs across America.

The family, education system, workplace, and media directly and indirectly socialize society to have deep-seated stereotypes and prejudices. The effects of these prejudices are often seen much later in life, where an employer or co-worker makes a harmful decision based on the gender of the applicant. It can also make a worker uncomfortable when confronted with a workplace dominated by the opposite gender.

The family is the first place that a child is subjected to sex

The child's association between males and science comes from the toys that each gender plays with. Male children play with toys that are complex, that allow the child to think spatially, and allow the child to take the toy apart and put it back together again. Female children receive toys which are associated with house-keeping and the house. Many of women's hobbies that are considered liberal arts take place in the home and the child sees this. They see their mother reading a book and sewing and cross-stitching, witch are liberal arts.

ism and the indirect domination of one gender over another. The first hint at a sexist difference is the bearer of the children. Children see their mom as a place where they can take comfort, be safe, be relaxed and soothed, and be protected. The father is seen as the person who goes off to work and provides for the family. He is also the child's playmate, showing it the different types of gender specific toys. From the start, a child is indirectly socialized to see that men and women are different and that the mother is the care-taker of the family and the father earns the money. Later on in life, the child may carry out this indirect gender socialization by the way that he or she treats and expects to be treated by members of the opposite sex. Many people find a over-dominating women offensive, because the woman does not fit the description of their mother. Accepting a strong willed woman becomes difficult in our society because of the indirect socialization through our mothers. The way that children are supposed to act is also supported through the parents. When a little boy rushes home with tears in his eyes because of cut or scrape, the ill fated words, "Be brave, little boys are brave.", will come out. If the same were to happen to a l

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