Should we be worried that young girls are not pursuing math-related careers at the same rate as young men? After all, in our technological era, many of tomorrow’s well-paying jobs will require ...

When it comes to stem jobs like engineering and medicine and computers, there’s a long history of gender performance bias, with many people believing that boys’ math capabilities are better than girls ...

While gender differences in learning math have long been debated, new research debunks an old myth about the math abilities of boys and girls. Women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree ...

Are boys really better at math than girls? Nah, that doesn’t add up. That’s according to new research out of Carnegie Mellon University. Neuroscientists looked at young boys’ and girls’ brains, and ...

Boys take more math classes than girls, right? Wrong, according to a new study that found that female high school students take as many math courses as males. And they are more likely to do so if ...

Math can be a difficult subject. In school, I remember being fairly good at math but it seemed a lot of my fellow students were not. There were times when I helped to tutor other students in the class ...

Lecia Barker doesn’t buy the pervasive argument that girls learn math and science differently than boys do, and that the difference ultimately turns off girls to these types of careers. In fact, today ...