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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Differences in math skills between boys and girls emerge abruptly when they start formal ...

A new study of schoolchildren in France suggests that boys are not innately better at math. Some aspect of schooling appears to drive the "gender gap." ...

The phrase “Girls in STEM” has become a common one, with the aim to promote and support girls as young as early elementary school to be exposed to the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and ...

Telling women they can't do well in math may turn out be a self-fulfilling statement. In tests in Canada, women who were told that men and women do math equally well did much better than those who ...

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 ...

On a previous post, I documented the statistically significant male-female test score gap for the 2008 SAT math exam, and the graph above shows that this statistically significant difference of more ...

The College Board recently released detailed data on percentile ranks by gender for the 2011 SAT tests, and data for the 2011 SAT math test are presented in the table and chart above. 1. For all math ...

In a previous post [Men’s Struggle for Status and Relevance], I discussed male-male competition from an evolutionary perspective and described how this manifests in the here and now as men’s focus on ...

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A bad relationship with math can start early, and anxiety or a lack of confidence around numbers can compound over time — transforming from a grade school phobia to a career hurdle. But some math ...

An article in Friday's Chronicle written by a Jill Tucker makes the following assertions: "A new study ... shows what the five female university researchers already knew: Girls are just as good as ...