Physical review physics education research - Gender in Physics special collection

Gender in Physics

A special collection highlighting the current state of the field of physics education research as it relates to gender in physics.

• Gender gaps and gendered action in a first-year physics laboratory

• Gender, experience, and self-efficacy in introductory physics

• Beneath the numbers: A review of gender disparities in undergraduate education across science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines

• Student evaluations of physics teachers: On the stability and persistence of gender bias

• Women in physics: A comparison to science, technology, engineering, and math education over four decades

• Women’s and men’s career choices in astronomy and astrophysics

• Fitting in or opting out: A review of key social-psychological factors influencing a sense of belonging for women in physics

• Differences in gender performance on competitive physics selection tests

• Gender gap or program gap? Students’ negotiations of study practice in a course in electromagnetism

• Educational pathways of Black women physicists: Stories of experiencing and overcoming obstacles in life

• Enriching gender in physics education research: A binary past and a complex future

• Gender compatibility, math-gender stereotypes, and self-concepts in math and physics

• Social cognitive perspective of gender disparities in undergraduate physics

• “If I had to do it, then I would”: Understanding early middle school students’ perceptions of physics and physics-related careers by gender

• How gender and reformed introductory physics impacts student success in advanced physics courses and continuation in the physics major

• Gender discrimination in physics and astronomy: Graduate student experiences of sexism and gender microaggressions

• Masculinities and experimental practices in physics: The view from three case studies