The Para-Rigger

But it’s unfair to pin all the blame on my mother. There were other factors, such as indifferent or incompetent teachers and my growing sense that girls who like math are suspect to boys — and at 12, what boys thought was suddenly very important.

This new study also found that when female students switched from a male to a female teacher, their math test scores increased by 8.5 percent of the standard deviation than the boys.
Meer said he felt that the increased performance in mathematics is due to the girls feeling more comfortable when taught by a female instructor.