A Summary of http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/30/the-math-gender-gap-nurture-can-trump-nature/. In the article “The Math Gender Gap: Nurture Trumps Nature,” Szalavitz (2011) discusses a study that has shown that culture can be responsible for differences in gender performance. Research was done that showed that there are not enough women professors in big universities, and we need to know why. A new researcher Moshe Hoffman researched about two tribes in India to prove if culture controls different gender performances in math. The tribes are same in almost everything but have different cultures. The Karbi has a culture where men control everything, but the Khasi is different because there is equal between men and women for education and jobs. It is difficult for women to have a good future in the Karbi because men always say that they are not smart enough, and the women can only listen to what the men tell them. On the other hand, women are very important in the Khasi because they control the house bills and money issues. When Hoffman tested the tribes, Karbi men were better than women because they had more education, but the scores were the same for men and women in the Khasi tribe because they had equal education. Overall, the study showed that culture does affect math performance between men and women. Rebecca Goldin says that the test is good and it proves that. She also said that we don’t know if biology makes a difference, and we learned from this study that we cannot say that culture is not important (Szalavitz, 2011).