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[Editor’s note: Here’s a disturbing fact: Although women get better grades in college than men, that doesn’t mean they’ll have great careers or more opportunities. So should we tell our daughters to study less and play more--like our sons apparently do? Maybe, but college president MaryAnn Baenninger says it’s time to study gender and college at Chronicle.com.--Mona]
She writes:
Women underestimate their abilities and express lower levels of self-confidence than their abilities suggest. Men overestimate their abilities and express higher levels of confidence than their abilities warrant. This difference arrives with them as first-year students and leaves with them as seniors.
