Includes updates and/or revisions. Two years ago, a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign turned conventional wisdom on its head with a study suggesting that, once ...

Brain scans of kids under 10 years old show no gender difference in how they perform math equations. Previous studies looked at standardized tests, which don’t differentiate between learned and innate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kim Elsesser covers issues that impact women in the workplace. Despite growing awareness of the lack of gender equality in STEM, a ...

The College Board released its 2015 SAT college-entrance test results this week, and the overall results were somewhat disappointing (“ugly” according to AEI’s Rick Hess’s article below), see ...

Despite the fact that boys and girls display equal competencies in mathematics (e.g. Lindberg, Hyde & Petersen, 2010), gender gaps in math attitudes, perceptions, and interests remain prominent.

Girls are great at math. But if they’re even better at reading, they might be more motivated to choose a humanities-focused career. ByKatherine J. Wu Monday, July 15, 2019 NOVA NextNOVA Next A complex ...

Women are underrepresented in some science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects and fields, global studies have shown. Even in countries with higher gender equality, sex ...