takeahike At least the unfounded belief was that boys were better at math and that girls were better at reading and verbal skills.
While I was good at math and science courses at school, my poorest subjects were history, geography and the language arts. I guess I didn’t see the “logic” in those as compared to math and science.
I remember quite a few girls in my classes excelling at math, though. In fact, there’s a book/movie on how well some women can be at math and computing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures