A study concluded that math performance for boys and girls improves when there is greater gender equality. It was an odd place to find it, but while reading the New York Times chess column last ...

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Actuarial Science student Olivia Suarez is turning her love of numbers into a way to help people while strengthening the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

There has been a long-standing, and often very emotional debate about whether there are any gender differences in mathematical ability. If you have any doubts about how emotional and irrational the ...

Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit? Math in 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of ...

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 ...

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 ...