Nudging to equality: how improvement of the environment in schools can reduce a gender gap ?

Instead of focusing on inherent biological features, environmental factors are coming to be seen as the driving force behind both behavioral and brain differences between males and females. The present research sought to consider alternative policies for promoting gender equality formation that are targeted to primary schools in the UK. The paper demonstrates the importance of building the right school environment in accounting for gender gaps. Girls tend to underperform while competing with boys, such that facing stereotype threat their efficiency is undermined, moreover, this leads to the possibly biased decisions in the future. The paper focuses on early interventions in schooling environment that could facilitate the reduction in gender disparities in further education and therefore, will result in decline of male dominance at the workplace, precisely in such fields as Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, etc.