Abstract
Charles, M. (2017). Venus, Mars, and Math: Gender, Societal Affluence, and Eighth Graders’ Aspirations for STEM. Socius, 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023117697179
The author would like to notify the reader of changes to their article to rectify a coding error related to the parents’ education. This coding error affected the sample composition in the published tables and the methods section due to them being restricted to students with at least one secondary-educated parent. The author has provided supplemental Appendix material to validate that conclusions remain unchanged using an expanded sample (see online Appendix).
The following corrections have been made to the original article:
The author has modified the text of their Data and Methods section to clarify inclusion criteria of the students in relation to their parent’s education and the coding process used in the analysis.
Table 2’s Constant in Models 1-3 have been corrected (see also column 1, Table 3).
Table 2’s Average math achievement standard error in Model 3 has been corrected (see also column 1, Table 3).
Table 2’s Note has been updated to include “Reference category on parental education is some postsecondary.”
In Table 2, 3, and Appendix B, the category “Highest degree parent: primary school” has been modified to “Highest degree parent: secondary school.”
In Figure 2’s legend, the sentence “They assume students of average age, average math achievement, and average affinity for school with secondary educated parents” has been modified to “They assume students of average age, average math achieve-ment, and average affinity for school with some postsecondary educated parents.”
Table 3’s “footnote d” has been updated to include the country Hungary.
Appendix A’s Note has been updated to include “Cases with missing values on math aspirations, parental education, age, and math achievement are deleted listwise.”
Appendix B’s Math achievement standard deviation in 2003 has been updated.
Appendix B’s Societal Affluence (Human Development Index” scores for both 2003 and 2011 have been updated to correct the coding error
These changes have been updated in the original article.
Further, the author has provided additional Appendix material to validate the conclusions remain unchanged that can be in the supplemental material.
The Journal Editor has confirmed that the changes to the article do not affect the overall central findings of the study.
The authors apologize to readers for this inadvertent error.