A version of this story was originally published by EdSource. Girls closed the gender gap in math; then the pandemic struckJust before the pandemic struck, girls had overtaken boys’ scores in math and ...

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DESTREHAN, La. — During a recent group project in her eighth-grade engineering class, Charlotte Buccola took charge. Standing between the two boys on her team, she silently arranged sticky notes on a ...

Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at de Zavala Middle School in Irving puzzled over a Lego machine they had built. As they flashed a purple card in front of a light sensor, nothing happened.

At Del Rio STEM Academy, a magnet school in Oceanside Unified School District, first-grade teacher Katherine Sebastian uses her hands as she talks through math problems. Her hands come together in a ...

IRVING, Texas — Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at Lorenzo de Zavala Middle School puzzled over a Lego machine they built. As they flashed a purple card in front of a light sensor, nothing ...

The Mid-Michigan Graduate Women in Science chapter and campus RSO hosted "Girls in Math and Science Day" on March 14. Over 170 "future scientists" registered for the event, some even traveling for ...

In recent years, research on the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields has proliferated. (STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.) STEM jobs tend to be higher-paying ...

Just before the pandemic struck, girls had overtaken boys' scores in math and finally closed the long-standing gender gap in a subject that is a gateway to the fields of science, technology, ...