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 ...

LOS ANGELES - A research team at Carnegie Mellon University found new evidence that there exists no difference in brain function or math ability between genders. "We see that children's brains ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

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 ...

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

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. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. In 1992, a time which for many of us seems not that long ago, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the philosophy and ethics of science and technology. It’s a prejudice that could seriously harm young girls, yet it ...

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 ...