Many researchers feel that educators, administrators, and parents alike need to work toward gender equity in our schools. Fennema (1990) defines gender equity as the “set of behaviors and knowledge that permits education to recognize inequality in educational opportunities, to carry out specific interventions that constitute equal educational treatment, and to ensure equal educational outcomes,” (Sanders, 1997). However, many researchers agree that Fennema’s definition does not always occur in our schools and point to a gender gap in mathematics as a prime example. Twenty-one out of twenty-four sources used by the author hold to the belief that there is a gender gap in
mathematics, to some degree, between males and females. The debate is concerning different aspects of the gender gap such as when it begins, how wide it is, if it is narrowing and by how much, the causes of the gap, and its effects.