Just before the pandemic struck, girls had overtaken boys’ scores in math and finally closed the long-standing gender gap in a subject that is a gateway to the fields of science, technology, ...

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DESTREHAN, La. — During a recent group project in her eighth-grade engineering class, Charlotte Buccola took charge. Standing between the two boys on her team, she silently arranged sticky notes on a ...

The Mid-Michigan Graduate Women in Science chapter and campus RSO hosted "Girls in Math and Science Day" on March 14. Over 170 "future scientists" registered for the event, some even traveling for ...

IRVING, Texas — Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at Lorenzo de Zavala Middle School puzzled over a Lego machine they built. As they flashed a purple card in front of a light sensor, nothing ...

Plenty of parents and teachers know full well that a child's aptitude for math has nothing to do with their sex, but for years, studies have used only test scores to confirm this truth. A new study ...

It’s the kind of finding to warm the hearts of us liberal, Larry-Summers-hating, gender-egalitarians. Summers — you saw him in The Social Network as the Harvard president who had no patience for the ...

In recent years, research on the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields has proliferated. (STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.) STEM jobs tend to be higher-paying ...