Contents

• Research on the women and mathematics issue: a personal case history / Susan F. Chipman
• The perseverative search for sex differences in mathematics ability / Jeremy B. Caplan and Paula J. Caplan
• A psychobiosocial model: why females are sometimes greater than and sometimes less than males in math achievement / Diane F. Halpern, Jonathan Wai, and Amanda Saw
• Gender differences in math : cognitive processes in an expanded framework / James P. Byrnes
• Cognitive contributions in sex differences in math performance / James M. Royer and Laura M. Garofoli
• Spatial ability as a mediator of gender differences on mathematics tests: a biological-environmental framework / Ronald L. Nuttal, M. Beth Casey, and Elizabeth Pezaris
• Examining gender-related differential item functioning using insights from psychometric and multicontext theory / Allan S. Cohen and Robert A. Ibarra
• The gender-gap artifact: women’s underperformance in quantitative domains through the lens of stereotype threat / Paul G. Davies and Steven J. Spencer
• "Math is hard!" (Barbie TM, 1994): responses of threat vs. challenge-mediated arousal to stereotypes alleging intellectual inferiority / Talia Ben- Zeev, Christina M. Carrasquillo, Alison M.L. Ching, Tattiya J. Kliengklom, Kristen L. McDonald, Daniel C. Newhall, Gillian E. Patton, Tiffany D. Stewart, Tonya Stoddard, Michael Inzlicht, and Steven Fein
• The role of ethnicity on the gender gap in mathematics / Alyssa M. Walters and Lisa M. Brown
• The gender gap in mathematics : merely a step function? / Sophia Catsambis
• "I can, but I don’t want to": the impact of parents, interests, and activities on gender difference in math / Janis E. Jacobs, Pamela Davis-Kean, Martha Bleeker, Jaquelynne S. Eccles, and Oksana Malanchuk
• Gender effects on mathematics achievement: mediating role of state and trait self-regulation / Eunsook Hong, Harold F. O’Neill, and David Feldon
• Gender differences in mathematics self- efficacy beliefs / Frank Pajares
• Gender difference in mathematics: what we know and what we need to know / Ann M. Gallagher and James C. Kaufman