When We Look at the Research on Implicit Stereotypes About

question 18

Multiple Choice

When we look at the research on implicit stereotypes about gender and STEM with an intersectional lens, we have found that ______.

• A) African American women are even more impacted than White women
• B) women across ethnicities are impacted similarly
• C) some of our thinking about gender and STEM could be limited to Whites
• D) Asian women seem to be impacted less than other women of color and White women

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