Research suggests that men tend to outperform women in abstract mathematical and scientific domains and women tend to outperform men on production and comprehension of complex prose. Sonya Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), who was regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of her time, wrote: “It seems to me that the poet must see what others do not see, must look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing. As for myself, all my life I have been unable to decide for which I had the greater inclination, mathematics or literature” (Kovalevskaya, 1978, p. 35).
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