How Important Is Gender to Chess and/or Academic Success?

A very interesting article. Nigel Short has certainly started an interesting discussion with his New In Chess articles taking the position that men innately make better chess players. 

If educators, academics, and administrators wish to increase the diversity of a particular discipline, our work suggests that they may wish to alter the messages they send regarding what is needed for success in the discipline. A brief summary of suggestions on how to begin to do this can be found here. In addition to potentially increasing diversity, a very impressive body of work by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck and her colleagues reflects that everyone -- regardless of gender -- benefits from viewing success as requiring hard work, dedication, and effort, rather than simply being a matter of raw, inherent talent. Moving away from "brilliance required" cultures may thus have a range of beneficial effects. – From Gender Gaps in Academia, retrieved on May 2nd, 2015.

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